A condom-free future? Part 2 of our four-part series on PrEP

A cause for hope or a road to catastrophe?


In the second of our four-part series on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), Daily Xtra looks at the failure of condoms in stopping the transmission of HIV. Can PrEP fill the gap, or will the temptation of condom-free sex cause more problems than it solves?

In the second of a four-part series on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), Daily Xtra looks at the failure of condoms in stopping the spread of HIV. Can PrEP fill the gap, or will the temptation of safer condom-free sex cause more problems than it solves?

In the above video, Nicolas Kazamia speaks with Robert Grant, a researcher at the Gladstone Institutes; Alan McCord, from Project Inform; and HIV/AIDS prevention workers Tim Ryan and Steve Gibson, from Magnet, a sexual health clinic in San Francisco.

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In the series

Part 1: Can a pill a day keep HIV away?

Part 3: The controversy behind PrEP

Part 4: If gay men can avoid HIV with a pill, why aren’t they taking it?

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