Some researchers have stopped their study on daily AIDS prevention pills because their results show that the pill was not doing any good and was rather useless. They have tested this pill with thousands of African women, but have found that the women taking these pills were just as likely to be infected with AIDS as any other women who didn't take these pills. There were no side effects or safety problems with the pill, as no fatal diseases or sicknesses have arose from the pill itself, yet an interesting result is that women who were taking this pill were more likely to become pregnant. Scientists who learned of this could not explain it why this pill, named Truvada, would cause these kinds of results. I believe that the scientists did the right thing by halting the study regarding this specific pill. This is because it never turned any good results, and so the best decision is to halt the study to save and conserve money, and start looking and experimenting for another pill that could possibly cure this epidemic. If the researchers were to keep wasting time and money for this pill, the chances of ultimately finding a cure or anything that could control this disease would decrease by many times, as they would be experimenting with a dead end.
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