MPs call for NHS funding for HIV prevention drug

Leading UK politicians have called for an HIV prevention drug to be made available across the NHS after a court ruling paved the way for cheap generic versions of Gilead’s Truvada.
Conservative MPs Crispin Blunt and Nigel Evans, and Labour’s Stephen Doughty said that HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) should be made available across the NHS now that generics of Truvada (emtricitabine+tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) are available at a fraction of the originator’s price.
If taken by uninfected individuals, Truvada can reduce the risk of the virus becoming established in the body if they are exposed to it – a use known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).