Gilead's Descovy HIV Prevention Indication Should Exclude Women, US FDA Advisory Cmte. Says
Executive Summary
Gilead and the FDA failed women by letting PrEP application get this far without clinical efficacy data in non-transgendered females, panel members say in close vote against a broad indication; panelists urge the agency to mandate such studies regardless of the breadth of the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis indication ultimately granted to the Truvada successor.
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