It’s called “taking a T” – popping pills of the anti-HIV drug tenofovir as a prophylactic before having unprotected sex. In 2005, press reports suggested gay men across the US were turning to the drug as an unproven alternative to condoms. On the gay club scene, drug dealers were reportedly selling cocktails of tenofovir, Viagra and ecstasy.
Those fears were overblown, says Albert Liu of the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Last week, at a symposium organised by the University of California, San Francisco, he described a survey of more than 1000 gay and bisexual men in which just one…
