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Truvada, an HIV treatment pill, one step closer to being approved for prevention by FDA

Truvada, a pill that has long been used to treat HIV, may be approved as a preventative pill on Thursday.

HIV/AIDS activists, some of them living with the virus, yell during a demonstration April 25, 2012 in Nairobi on the sidelines of a joint conference sponsored by the US embassy here and Kenya's vision 2030 about health and reducing mortality in the East African nation.

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