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    http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-06-...iv-infection/1

    There's a Morning-After Drug to Prevent HIV Infection

    The treatment is called post-exposure prophylaxis. So why do so few medical groups in Houston know about it?

    By Todd Spivak

    Published on June 05, 2008

    At 9:30 p.m. on Friday, April 18, Michelle Lee (not her real name) left a swimming pool party at an apartment complex in The Woodlands, strolled a couple blocks to her SUV wearing only flip-flops and a two-piece bathing suit with a towel wrapped around it and opened the driver's side door when a strange man suddenly gripped her throat from behind, told her to shut the fuck up, shoved her inside the car onto her stomach and raped her with the door left open.

    "I was paralyzed," says Michelle, her hands trembling as she recounts the incident. "My body couldn't do anything."


    Michelle knows little about her attacker, only that he was African American and smelled like sweat. "I saw his face," she says, "but don't remember it."
    A 32-year-old attorney who has worked on numerous sexual assault cases, Michelle knew better than to go home, bathe and fall asleep, but that's exactly what she did. "I wanted to forget about it," she says. "I wanted to get clean."

    It took 24 hours before Michelle could finally cry and admit to herself that she had been raped. She said it aloud. Feeling inexplicably guilty, shameful, she did not want to tell friends or family. But she had to tell somebody.

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    As the night wore on, Michelle became increasingly panicked that she might have contracted HIV or some other sexually transmitted disease. She typed "HIV test" into Google on her home computer in Humble and stumbled upon a San ­Francisco-based Web site that described a month-long antiretroviral drug treatment called post-exposure prophylaxis.

    PEP, she learned, is an emergency medical treatment commonly used to protect people exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus by preventing the infection from taking hold in the body. The three-drug combination includes the same toxic medication given to people with AIDS.

    But the drug regimen must be initiated right away, the Web site warned. It's not effective in aborting HIV if begun more than 72 hours after the incident.


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    I was very surprised to read that as an attorney who has worked on sex assault cases, she went home and took a shower immediatly. Definitely NOT blaming her (she was probably in shock and totally traumatized), but it surprises me. Poor lady.

    As far as the HIV thing, I wonder why we haven't heard more about this?
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    I think it's a series of treatments, over a four-week period and is most effective if started within an hour of initial exposure. Usually thats only doable for nurses and such with accidental needle sticks, but the earlier the treatment is started the higher the rate of sucess.

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    That article is a horror! The rampant misinformation and even arrogance of these twits saying she couldn't be treated and their ignorance of the drug was appalling!
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    HIV and AIDS and treatment and prevention and stuff is all debatable. And a very touchy subjects. I might keep an eye on this thread




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    "The risk of transmission of HIV from an infected patient through a needlestick where the skin is punctured by a sharp is less than 1%. The risk for transmission from exposure to infected fluids or tissues is believed to be lower than for exposure to infected blood.

    There is significant debate on the need to use PEP after sexual exposure. The UN offers PEP to its staff in cases of rape when the likelihood of HIV exposure is considered high."

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    Quote Originally Posted by pookie View Post
    HIV and AIDS and treatment and prevention and stuff is all debatable. And a very touchy subjects. I might keep an eye on this thread

    I'm sorry pookie; I didn't really mean to start something crazy. I don't really hang around SW all the time and am not in the know about what has been majorly disruptive before. Do you feel we should ask a mod to lock the thread? I just wanted to get the word out there. I really feel this should have more exposure.
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    Default Re: !!!!There's a Morning-After Drug to Prevent HIV Infection!!!!!I HAD NO IDEA.

    I'm glad you posted this, it is comforting in a way. But it sucks she had to go to such great lengths toi get the medication.

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    Default Re: !!!!There's a Morning-After Drug to Prevent HIV Infection!!!!!I HAD NO IDEA.

    mother jones had an article on this a few issues back.
    it still has some rate of success after 72 hours but
    supposedly it has some ridiculously high rate of success
    (like 90% though it's not like they can objectively test it)
    if taken in the 24-72 hour range.

    the problem is that a lot of states have it in their ER's for staff or
    other profesionals who might have been exposed via work. depending
    on the state you're in you can get a LOT of static if you are a member of
    the general public and ask for it.
    the MJ article used a gay male who had had sex with a man who didnt tell
    him until AFTERWARD that he was hiv+. luckily, he was in CA so there was
    relatively little static.

    it gives you a month of hell though-- a lot like chemo
    so this isn't to be done lightly.

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    I've heard of this before.

    An ex-coworker used to work at the HIV clinic in Miami. She told me that one of the girls she worked with was accidently stuck with a needle and was given this treatment for a 30 day period.

    After 25 (aprox) years of this horrific disease, I think its wonderful they (scientists/researchers) are making progress.
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    Very interesting- thank you for posting!

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