{"id":11371,"date":"2018-05-12T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/?p=11371"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:42:17","slug":"descovy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/11371","title":{"rendered":"Descovy (TAF + emtricitabine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13837\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Descovy-10-mg-2018.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"59\" height=\"36\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13840\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/descovy-25-mg-2018.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"59\" height=\"34\" \/><\/p>\n<p>10\/200 mg (white) and 25\/200 mg (blue)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em><br \/>\ndes-COVE-ee<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Descovy is the trade name for a fixed dose combination pill of <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/11059\">tenofovir alafenamide<\/a> (TAF) plus <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/3535\">emtricitabine<\/a>\u00a0(FTC).<\/li>\n<li>It is also prescribed as PrEP.<\/li>\n<li>Standard adult dose is one tablet, once-daily.<\/li>\n<li>Two dose formulations are available with different TAF doses: 10 mg (white) and \u00a025 mg (blue). Both formulations also contain 200 mg FTC.<\/li>\n<li>Descovy was approved in both the US and the EU in April 2016.<\/li>\n<li>TAF is similar\u00a0to\u00a0drug <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/3541\">tenofovir-DF (TDF)<\/a>\u00a0but has fewer side effects relating to kidney function and reduced bone density.<\/li>\n<li>TAF\/TFC is approved in the UK, mainly for\u00a0people who are unable to\u00a0use <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/3541\">TDF<\/a> because of concerns for kidney or bone toxicity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Further information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European\u00a0<em>patient leaflet<\/em>\u00a0and detailed\u00a0<em>Product Information<\/em>\u00a0for Truvada are available in from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ema.europa.eu\/en\/medicines\/human\/EPAR\/descovy\">this link\u00a0<\/a>on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) website.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Patient Information<\/em>\u00a0is a simplified summary: what the drug is, why it is used, results from studies and cautions including side effects.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Product Information<\/em>\u00a0is a detailed technical summary that you can access as a PDF file by clicking the &#8216;Product Information&#8217; tab. It describes more precisely how the drug works and how it is processed by your body. This includes, for example, reported food interaction studies in terms of calories or fat content. It includes more details of the study results and a full list of side effects and drug interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 10\/200 mg (white) and 25\/200 mg (blue)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arvs","category-nukes","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19013,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions\/19013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}