Some people like to have hookups. But that behavior is also quite risky when it comes to HIV
Currently, apart from using condoms or just not having risky sex, your best bet is to ask your doctor for post-exposition prophylaxis – getting antiretroviral drugs. Another possibility is even to use pre-exposition prophylaxis that is used preemptively.
Pre-exposition prophylaxis could be compared to using contraception – in both cases, the effectiveness is dependent on using the drugs regularly. If on some day you forget to take them a big problem can be born. And since humans are quite forgetful many women prefer to use a sub-dermal implant that is effective for several years. The biopharmaceutical company Merck & Co. is now working on a similar solution for HIV
The first phase study results that were published by Merck & Co. on Thursday show that the implant is doing its job quite well and is well tolerated. What does need to be said that the study took place over a period of just twelve weeks and only twelve men took part in it. Thus we should be cautiously optimistic.