PEP is medication that is used to
help stop the infection and transmission of
AIDS or HIV within a 72 hour window period of coming into contact with
AIDS or HIV. See One night stands.
PEP is a month-
long course of drugs that, if taken within 72 hours of the HIV virus entering the body, can prevent a person becoming infected with HIV. The PEP drugs are the same drugs that people who have the HIV virus use to reduce its impact on the body.
PEP is short for Post Exposure Prophylaxis.
Post = after
Exposure = a situation where HIV enters someone's body (eg: during unprotected
fucking or by sharing needles etc)
Prophylaxis = treatment for disease
I was totally wasted and high on drugs the other night and had unprotected sex with a couple of guys from the club.
I better get down to the clinic and go on PEP just in
case I caught The Big A (
AIDS or HIV).
Better to be safe than
sorry?