Posted on 05/15/2014 10:28:54 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Federal health officials recommended Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk for AIDS take a daily pill that has been shown to prevent infection with the virus that causes it.
If broadly followed, the advice could transform AIDS prevention in the United States — from reliance on condoms, which are effective but unpopular with many men, to a regimen that relies on an antiretroviral drug.
It would mean a 50-fold increase in the number of prescriptions for the drug, Truvada — to 500,000 a year from fewer than 10,000. The drug costs $13,000 a year, and most insurers already cover it.
The guidelines tell doctors to consider the drug regimen, called PrEP, for pre-exposure prophylaxis, for gay men who have sex without condoms; heterosexuals with high-risk partners such as drug injectors or male bisexuals who have unprotected sex; patients who regularly have sex with anyone they know is infected; and anyone who shares needles or injects drugs.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have long been frustrated that the number of H.I.V. infections in the United States has barely changed in a decade, stubbornly holding at 50,000 a year, despite 30 years of official advice to rely on condoms to block transmission.
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There’s only one sure way to avoid AIDS.
Don’t go in through the out door.
Hoping this drains funds from the gays reducing their political influence.
Reminds me of:
John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Since the blood supply is at best risky, I wouldn’t want to rely on anonymous donors truthfulness about their sexual habits. If I need a transfusion and end up with AIDS I sure don’t want know it alls telling me that I am immoral.
Get rid of all those expensive treatments for those evil old folks so we have money to buy pills for promiscuous gays so they don’t have to use condoms.
Sounds like a good way to select for drug-resistant HIV. Counter-evolutionaries.
The drug costs $13,000 a year, and most insurers already cover it.
Saltpeter?
Who manufactures Truveda and how much money are they giving to politicians.
One thing I don’t think we will ever see is a cure for AIDS. I don’t think the gaystapo will allow themselves to lose that victimhood hammer. Same as I believe we will never see a male birth control pill.
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