By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 07:35 EST, 9 May 2012 | UPDATED: 06:25 EST, 11 May 2012 The daily pill, that could soon be approved by the FDA for preventing HIV in high-risk patients A pill to prevent HIV could soon be available to the public after a panel of US federal advisers voted to endorse its approval yesterday. An approval would be a major breakthrough in the 30-year campaign against the AIDS epidemic. Truvada is currently used to treat the virus, but tests have shown it to be safe and effective in healthy people for preventing it.
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Food and Drugs Administration panel voted to endorse the drug yesterday
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Would be prescribed to healthy people who are at high risk of contracting HIV
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Some argue the wide availability of such a drug would discourage safe sex and increase incidence of HIV
Although the FDA is legally barred from considering cost when reviewing drugs, health care providers have raised concerns about @placeholder's price tag: $900 a month, or just under $11,000 per year.