AIDS Experts met today, from the French National Council on AIDS, Prof. Patrick Yeni, Explained its position on using caution before approving the PrEP Research now underway in Clinical study IPERGAY, Paris, France
Ipergay test: wide consultation, but not to stop By Luke Biecq Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 11:26 | |According to experts, not always easy to decipher, the National Agency for AIDS Research announced in turn launch a further consultation on its test 's a soap opera, and it is not easy to follow. The National Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS) has announced that it will organize another round of consultations, to make at the end of summer, conclusions. Because since May 10, the situation has changed. A group of experts recommended the placing on the market Truvada, in pre-exposure prophylaxis. The idea is to try to avoid, especially among homosexual men, transmission of the HIV virus by taking a drug. This decision should be affirmed on June 15, but officials should take time to think much consideredAs the trial Ipergay intends to scientifically measure the effectiveness of Truvada among gay men with condoms, several questions arise: should we continue this trial? Is it appropriate to keep two groups, one that will receive the molecule and the other a placebo? This is to answer these questions ANRS will expand its thinking. Because if there is no new scientific data, the researchers want to show they are not isolated from the world and take into account the criticism, sometimes scathing, made around ANRS has seized the Scientific Council of the trial and will receive notice of the independent committee which monitors, in accordance with French law, the safety of participants in this trial. The voluntary committee, composed of representatives of gay organizations and the fight against AIDS, will also be asked to give its position. Side of the principal investigator of this research, Professor Jean-Michel Molina, we judge it is by no means a retreat. The recruitment of volunteers Ipergay line with forecasts. 80 people have already signed a consent for participation. The objective is to find 300 before the end of Janu
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