March 29, 2013 The Tulsa Health Department, the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry, and the Oklahoma State Department of Health are investigating a private dental practice that may have exposed more than seven thousand patients to HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C.
On Monday, the FDA approved a groundbreaking drug called Truvada, the first medication shown to prevent HIV in people who have sex with those infected with the virus that causes AIDS.
The United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is reporting world AIDS deaths and new HIV infections have each dropped 21 percent since the peak of the AIDS pandemic, the most optimistic report the group has ever issued.
Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS program, says in a news release, “We have seen a massive scale-up in access to HIV treatment, which has had a dramatic effect on the lives of people everywhere.”
