Common birth control shot related to risk of HIV infection

Amadeo22 Oct, 2018Health

The accepted preventive in Sub-Saharan Africa is depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) — a birth control shot administered each 3 months. Human studies advise DMPA use might lift a risk of HIV infection by 40 percent. Other forms of preventive shots do not uncover a same association with HIV infection. In this article, a authors examination a