article_snippet.sent: Healthy gay men should be given anti-retroviral drugs to 'slash the number of cases of HIV', a groundbreaking study published earlier this year suggested.
article_snippet.sent: The Proud study, conducted in England, provides the first evidence that preventative HIV treatment is highly effective in a real-world setting.
article_snippet.sent: preventative HIV treatment is highly effective in a real-world setting showed that pre-exposure to the HIV drug Truvada can reduce the risk of infection in men-who-have-sex-with-men  by as much as 86 per cent.
article_snippet.sent: Previous research had suggested that preventive treatment might cut HIV infection rates but preventive treatment might cut HIV infection rates was unclear whether such an approach would work in practice. '