US Experts Provides Guidelines for Erectile Dysfunction
Drug Usage
27 September 2005
Doctors, drugmakers and health officials
should take steps to curb abuse of erectile
dysfunction (ED) drugs while research continues
on whether use of these medicines increase the rate
of HIV infections, especially among gay men.
Research may suggest a role of ED drugs like Viagra,
Cialis and its generic
counterpart like Caverta,
Edegra and Kamagra,
but more studies are needed to know how the drugs affect
transmission of the virus and whether they encourage
risky sexual behavior, a group of physicians, drug company
representatives and patient advocates said at a government-sponsored
conference near Washington.
The evidence was not consistent among all studies but
it was concluded that there is evidence of ED drugs
being used in conjunction with other recreational drugs
such as methamphetamines.
Impotence drugs
-- known as phosphodiesterase type 5, or PDE5, inhibitors
-- are approved to treat men who have trouble sustaining
an erection.
The conference, sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute
of Mental Health, aimed to give officials specific recommendations
on how to help curb rising infection rates and educate
men on safe use of ED drugs.
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