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<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>

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New phase in AIDS fight
May 12, 2012 9 p.m.

New phase in AIDS fight

Government expected to endorse pill to prevent infection