
NHS England patients to receive HIV preventive drug in clinical trial
NHS England will provide a new HIV preventive drug to its high-risk patients.
A drug is proven to be 86 per cent effective in cutting the risk of being HIV infected, according to a recent study published in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
At least 10,000 people at high risk will be given the PrEP drug for a period of three years.
The decision comes less than a month after a High Court ruling that NHS could provide the drug.
The health service fought in court that funding something preventative rather than treatment should fall to local authorities and not the NHS. However, the National Aids Trust charity challenged its proposal and won the case.
The drug has the “potential to have a transformative impact for thousands of people,” according to the Tr