![<p>Dr. Lisa Sterman holds up a Truvada pill Thursday at her office in San Francisco. Sterman prescribes the drug off-label for about a dozen patients at high risk for developing AIDS. The pill, already used to treat people with HIV, also helps prevent the virus from infecting healthy people.</p>](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/ARTICLE_305129999_AR_0_CHGIFRPEODOG_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
<p>Dr. Lisa Sterman holds up a Truvada pill Thursday at her office in San Francisco. Sterman prescribes the drug off-label for about a dozen patients at high risk for developing AIDS. The pill, already used to treat people with HIV, also helps prevent the virus from infecting healthy people.</p>
May 12, 2012
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