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A San Francisco Business Times article reports “eye-popping statistic” from a Kaiser Permanente study of approximately 500 individuals taking Truvada once a day as pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV.

The study, which enrolled a majority of men who have sex with multiple men and was conducted through Kaiser's HIV care and prevention program in San Francisco, confirms fears about the widespread deployment of PrEP as a public health prevention strategy. Condom-less sex leaves individuals unprotected from exposure to nearly all other STDs including syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and HPV.

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