CDC considers 'morning after' therapy for sexual exposure. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will convene a panel to consider sanctioning a morning after treatment to prevent HIV transmission from sex with an infected partner. The meeting was prompted by advocates who say people exposed to HIV should be given the same antiretroviral therapy recommended in the case of occupational exposure. The complex therapy involves a regimen of AZT and 3TC taken both with food and on an empty stomach. There are often severe side-effects.