What is Emtricitabine 200 mg used for?
Emtricitabine is used with other HIV medications to help control HIV infection. It helps to decrease the amount of HIV in your body so your immune system can work better. This lowers your chance of getting HIV complications (such as new infections, cancer) and improves your quality of life.
What is Tenof em for?
TENOF EM, a combination of Emtricitabine and Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, is indicated in combination with other antiretroviral agents (such as non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors or protease inhibitors) for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults.
Is Tenemine an ARV?
In South Africa, these ARVs are commonly known as Truvada, Tenemine and Adco-Emetevir. PrEP is not meant to be taken for life, but rather at times when a person feels they might of at risk of contracting HIV.
Is Emtricitabine the same as PrEP?
Fortunately, PrEP medication does come in a generic form. There are two medications, when used as a combination, that are approved for daily use as PrEP. Tenofovir and emtricitabine are combined into one prescription medication, Truvada®. Truvada® is the brand name of the generic medicine emtricitabine/tenofovir.
What are the side effects of emtricitabine?
Common side effects may include:
- headache, dizziness, weakness;
- indigestion, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea;
- sleep problems, strange dreams;
- rash, skin discoloration; or.
- changes in the shape or location of body fat (especially in your arms, legs, face, neck, breasts, and waist).
Does PrEP make you gain weight?
When used by people who are HIV-negative for PrEP, Descovy may cause a small amount of weight gain—or at least may not prevent normal weight gain as happens with Truvada. This is the case for cisgender men and possibly trans women (Descovy has not been studied for PrEP in transmasculine people or cisgender women).
Who needs TRUVADA?
TRUVADA for PrEP is only for people who are at risk of getting HIV-1 and weigh at least 77 pounds. You must be HIV negative before you start taking TRUVADA for PrEP. TRUVADA for PrEP does not prevent other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or pregnancy.
Is emtricitabine tenofovir PEP?
Objectives: Since 2016, French guidelines have recommended the single-tablet regimen of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)/emtricitabine (FTC)/rilpivirine (RPV) as HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), but few data support this usage.
Who takes emtricitabine?
Emtricitabine/Tenofovir disoproxil Mylan is an HIV medicine that is used in combination with at least one other HIV medicine to treat adults infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), a virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).