ShutterstockA comparison between the people allocated to oral PrEP in the two pivotal studies that compared it to injectable PrEP, HPTN 083 and HPTN 084, has found that the pills provided 99% protection against HIV infection to the gay and bisexual men and transgender women in HPTN 083 as long as they consistently took two or more pills a week. But the cisgender African women in HPTN 084 had to maintain daily PrEP – all seven pills a week – to receive the same efficacy.
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