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Gay-rights group backs use of HIV-prevention pill
Associated Press ^ | Oct 18, 2014 12:46 PM EDT | David Crary

Posted on 10/18/2014 9:55:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The largest U.S. gay-rights organization Saturday endorsed efforts to promote the use of a once-a-day pill to prevent HIV infection and called on insurers to provide more generous coverage of the drug.

Some doctors have been reluctant to prescribe the drug, Truvada, on the premise that it might encourage high-risk, unprotected sexual behavior. However, its preventive use has been endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and many HIV/AIDS advocacy groups.

The Human Rights Campaign, which recently has been focusing its gay-rights advocacy on same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination issues, joined those ranks with the release of a policy paper strongly supporting the preventive use of Truvada. It depicted the drug as “a critically important tool” in combating HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: aids; homosexualagenda; humanrightscampaign; truvada
Oh, the CDC endorses it, so it must work. Paging the Ebola czar . . .
1 posted on 10/18/2014 9:55:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

They will DEMAND that it will be free under 0bamacare.


2 posted on 10/18/2014 10:00:18 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Olog-hai

Spare no taxpayer expense in order to keep having that unnatural sex.


3 posted on 10/18/2014 10:00:35 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Olog-hai

This is great news! Now I can go to Haiti and not care how many prostitutes I engage in without protection.

If your lifestyle has you in fear of catching HIV every day, you have a bad lifestyle.


4 posted on 10/18/2014 10:01:36 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Olog-hai

I want a pill that will allow me to smoke as much as I want..and not get cancer. And the pill should be free.


5 posted on 10/18/2014 10:01:47 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Olog-hai
just like birth control, a magic pill for homosexuals to spill their fluids anywhere without repercussions....

but the jokes on them and us.....they can still get other std's and the abuse of their anal area will go unabated, maybe to their joy...

6 posted on 10/18/2014 10:03:01 AM PDT by cherry
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To: reg45

They will DEMAND that it will be free under 0bamacare.


In a few years we’ll probably learn it has side effects that kill people. Then they’ll all want to sue. If it makes them impotent and sterile, it wouldn’t bother me.

It will cost us more than obamacare. We’re the ones that provide most the funds for the UN/WHO. We’ll be sending boatloads of the stuff over to Africa at taxpayer’s expense.


7 posted on 10/18/2014 10:05:21 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Olog-hai

Suppository?


8 posted on 10/18/2014 10:08:44 AM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Olog-hai

Hey LOOK!

...a “No Consequences Pill”!!!!

LOL!


9 posted on 10/18/2014 10:10:49 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: skeeter

Yep. Stop the FUDGE PACKING and GLORY HOLE encounters and much of this s**t will STOP.
But, because that would require some SELF-CONTROL and most of these folks are LIBERALS, that ain’t gonna happen!

HIV and EBOLA: How Political Correctness Will Get You Killed!
The ongoing – and expanding –Ebola situation and how it’s being handled (or, more accurately, NOT being handled) has a parallel with the HIV panic of a number of years ago.
It may ALSO be another manifestation of the schizophrenic nature of the hard leftists who unfortunately sit at the levers of power in this country and whose double-mindedness should now be clear to all but the dullest among us.
Allow me to explain.
A San Francisco (where else?) based and HIV infected “leader”of the homosexual community began a serious campaign encouraging fellow HIV carriers to attempt to bypass or defeat the donor screening process and actively donate into the national blood supply. When pressed as to his justification for jeopardizing the entire nation, he declared that if HIV spread out into the “straight” community, it would almost certainly catalyze and accelerate the search for a vaccine.
Am I the only “conspiracy buff” to see the similarities between that and what’s going on today vis-a-vis Ebola?
I hadn’t thought about this angle until I heard Rush recently ranting about some author who’d written that because Liberia was founded by former slaves who returned to Africa, it was our unfortunate institution of slavery that is directly responsible for Ebola in the western nations of Africa. (Please note that I stop FAR short of the recent utterances of Calypso Louie Farrakan who claims that Ebola was created by evil white men to kill blacks!)
But I digress. That reasoning that America is responsible for Ebola – if it can be called “reasoning” – holds that it is America’s place to come to their rescue with a “cure”. And how better to “catalyze and accelerate” that process than to INFECT as many native born Americans HERE with the disease as possible?
Now here’s where the schizophrenia comes into the picture:
There is a growing group of folks who believe that the earth cannot support the current population approaching 7.3 billion. The bulk of them are in the same leftist camp as those now directing the present halfhearted “effort” against Ebola. Many of them are one and the SAME people directing the Ebola thing! The most radical of them embrace the words of a speaker at an early green movement/save-the-earth rally in California. Odd coincidence that, aye? He declared that “Man is the ultimate DISEASE of nature.” He got a standing O for that line!
From that meeting and others still being conducted, the greenies now believe that the 7.3 billion MUST be reduced to around 1 billion or less. And which members of which nations, ethnic groups or races are “eliminated” is irrelevant – so long as THEY are excluded!
Scriptures informs us that “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” The writer must have known a fair number of the leftists of his day.
Back to my question.
If, on one hand, the leftists are sincere in their effort to SAVE THE EARTH from overpopulation, why would they attempt to save the victims of Ebola and allow them to come here?
Could it be that allowing them to come here with the disease (and sending 3,000 potential military carriers THERE to bring it back with them) while portraying these actions to the noinfo masses as the compassionate thing to do is part of the same scheme attempted earlier by the HIV crowd?
I suggest that we prepare ourselves for the spread of the this 60% to 90% fatal disease among the population of this nation. (This may have been the reason for the Homeland Security “drills” about some “zombie apocalypse”.) This IS, after all, the same America that is hated by Obama and the One World leftists now in control here as the source of every evil committed in the rest of the world and for which evils it must be properly punished?
Do I really think these miscreants – living in their sanitized and safe gated “compounds” — would do that?
After witnessing 6 years of this gang’s criminal behavior, I absolutely think that!
Dick “If THEY really ARE out to get you, it’s NOT paranoia” Bachert
10/4/2014


10 posted on 10/18/2014 10:26:37 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Olog-hai

Placebos for all


11 posted on 10/18/2014 10:54:51 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Olog-hai

This is very similar to the argument for “free” contraceptive pills. The interest group has a behavior in which they want to engage. The behavior has a natural outcome which the interest group wants to avoid. A drug exists that will sometimes avert the outcome. Therefore, the drug should be provided to all who want it at no (direct) cost to the user.

This reasoning actually works better for an HIV prevention drug, since AIDS is a disease while pregnancy is health.


12 posted on 10/18/2014 1:42:54 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Feeling fine about the end of the world!)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m sure it’s cheaper than the treatments for HIV infection. that will be the argument. It saves costs.


13 posted on 10/18/2014 4:34:02 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Olog-hai

I could only ever buy so much of the pro-homosexual reasoning: especially when the excuses go to justifying having intimacy with so many people based solely on the alleged origins of which gender one is attracted to. It’s not as if my having a likely born with disability excuses me as an adult in throwing a temper tantrum to go and break things or hurt people. It’s not as if my arguing that I was “born” attracted to the opposite gender is an excuse for me to go and get my game on with so many women. It’s all a kind of reasoning that is so illogical it’s absurd.


14 posted on 10/18/2014 8:59:33 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Salman

Indeed, until the number blows up due to everyone who fears being exposed to HIV demanding it.


15 posted on 10/18/2014 11:09:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Doomonyou
Suppository?

Yes, the size of a baseball bat.

16 posted on 10/18/2014 11:22:11 PM PDT by Octar
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