In of the most promising developments in over twenty years, scientists claim that drugs used to control HIV/AIDS in patients may even be effective in stopping the disease in the first place.
The drugs in query are tenofovir (Viread) and emtricitabine, or FTC (Emtriva), sold in combination as Truvada by Gilead Sciences Inc. Gilead is the California company best known for inventing Tamiflu.
Earlier research has been aimed at finding a vaccine against HIV/AIDS, with the purpose of conditioning the immune technique against the disease. But these drugs work differently. They basically keep the virus from reproducing, and have already been used successfuly by health care workers to prevent them from being infected by the virus carried by patients.
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