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.
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