Is Truvada a cure against HIV? Or is it at least a pill that reduces early exposure to HIV? The answer is not as simple as taking blue medicine.

Some GLBT and HIV activists and medical professionals are at odds over prescribing Truvada as a cure.

As of now, Truvada (emtricitabine/tenofovir) is used by people living with HIV or PLWHAs as well as for HIV-negative people as a pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP. Truvada has been prescribed, certified and sold as treatment to PLWHAs since 2000. Two years ago, however, the drug was approved for PrEP, which is used to prevent and hopefully stop the spread of HIV infection. The prescribing of Truvada to HIV-negative people has both a positive and negative impact, Tech Times reported.

Author and AIDS activist Robert Levithan agrees that Truvada's usage as PrEP is a good thing. Levithan said that it should make people aware and more willing to get tested and know their health status, "The real risk is people who don't know their status," Levithan said, the Huffington Post reported.

Michael Weinstein, President of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, does not agree. Weinstein said he thinks that Truvada is a party drug. At least two years ago, talk and gossip traveled around that Truvada was a party drug: Some guys would take the pill before a hard night of clubbing or a wild weekend so that it would be enough to protect them from HIV, the San Francisco Gate Gate reported.

However, there is little evidence to suggest that this is true. Weinstein continued to argue that PrEP is a perhaps dangerous and risky tool and that adherence could be affected. As of now, it has not been measured if people are willing to take their pills everyday or sometimes, Weinstein suggested. He said that if some people forget a day or two a week, then they could be unknowingly putting themselves and others at an increased risk of becoming infected, the San Francisco Gate reported.

Weinstein has more people in agreement with him.

Activist, pioneer of the HIV and AIDS awareness and movement and playwright of "The Normal Heart," Larry Kramer, told The New York Times that he thinks it is cowardly to take a pill like Truvada, rather than just use a condom. Kramer said the drug is a "poison" to individuals and that it makes them lose their energy to fight, to take action and makes them less motivated, the Huffington Post reported.

But why would you ignore the data, when Truvada is producing staggeringly positive results? Even the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is on board. The CDC recommends that if individuals have an increased risk of getting the HIV that Truvada is best suited for them, the Tech Times reported.

In a study published in September of 2012, it showed that men who took Truvada daily were 99 percent protected from HIV. The study also revealed that the protection rate still seemed high in men who took the pills four days a week with just 96 percent protection from infection; and those who took the drugs twice a week had 76 percent protection, the Tech Times reported. In other words, the more one takes the PrEP the higher the protection rate is from infection.

"PrEP, used along with other prevention strategies, has the potential to help at-risk individuals protect themselves and reduce new HIV infections in the US," CDC Director Tom Frieden said.

While PrEP seemingly protects you from HIV, it does not protect you against sexually transmitted diseases.

Levithan recommended that if some people are perhaps afraid to know, then they do not care about themselves. But, if they are willing to take that leap into awareness, then they want to take care of themselves. "More information is only a good thing," Levithan said.