Opinion: We need to make it easier to get, and stay, on pre-exposure prophylaxis medication for HIV prevention

It’s been over a decade since the FDA approved the first Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) medication for HIV prevention in 2012. Now available in the U.S. as a daily pill or every-two-months injection, the antiretroviral treatment reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by about 99%, by preventing the HIV virus from replicating and actually causing an infection.