PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, must now be totally free under almost all insurance plans [Also now from CDC: send up to 1 million free HIV self-tests over the next 5 years = helps reduce HIV yet subsidizing and promoting immoral behavior : see comment]

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[Myrddin]

Truvada can damage kidneys. Example case: a woman in New Mexico who contracted COVID in early 2020 and has been injected with the mRNA "vaccines" is having ongoing problems labeled "long COVID". She tried Paxlovid. Great results until 2 days following the last dose, then a HUGE rebound with symptoms far worse than her original COVID infections. Some weeks later, on the advice of a person who works with HIV infected people, she tried Truvada. It worked great. She improved enough to run 15 miles. Her doctor did a pre-test of her kidney function before starting the Truvada. A follow up check of kidney function showed a 30% decrease inside a two week time frame. She discontinued use of Truvada.

The lesson here is that Truvada works well, but may destroy your kidneys. It shouldn't be an OTC taken without monitoring of kidney function by a doctor.

[Myrddin]

The conspiacy theorist in me says they are doing this not for Gays and AIDS.

The immune system damage and neural degeneration caused by SARS-CoV-2 infections is similar to HIV and Truvada measurably helps. The mechanisms are similar. I suspect the gay lobby is the primary intended beneficiary. It is a convenient coincidence that it helps COVID victims.

[daniel1212]

So if I decide to eat well “marbled” sirloin three meals a day does that mean I get free cholesterol medications to counteract my stupidity?

Only if and when having an orientation to habitually consuming well marbled sirloin qualifies you for "protected status," meaning insurance cannot penalize you for such (though they can based upon your BMI) and your class must be given free cholesterol medications as well as representation in hiring as a percentage.

[daniel1212]

The conspiacy theorist in me says they are doing this not for Gays and AIDS. But for the HIV outbreaks that are looming due to the long term Vax side effects.

No: it is part of Romans 1.

[Myrddin]

Insurance companies are being told that they must bear the brunt of this massive expense. They cannot pick money from a forest of money trees, so they must get the required funding from policy holders in the form of much higher policy premiums. It doesn’t matter if these are private insurers or ACA companies. Money has to be found.

No kidding. When I started with my current employer in Dec 1991, the cost for employee plus family at Kaiser Permanente was $25/month. Roll forward to today and I'm paying $13,800 in premiums for employee plus spouse with a $6900 deductible. I fund my HSA/FSA to the max because my wife is a Type 1 diabetic and burns money for supplies like a Summer forest fire. The advent of "domestic partner" coverage was nominally when the cost of health insure started skyrocketing. It was a euphemism for covering "gay couples" with the attendant expensive therapies for "living with HIV".

[daniel1212]

Of course. Aids has been a privileged disease from the start. I have crowed many times that the holy grail of the left is to force normal people to pay for aids care, abortion, euthanasia, and sex “change” operations. They’re almost there.

Wrong, they are there as part of the demonic perversion of all that God established as right and good for man.

[daniel1212]

The advent of PrEP also, not surprisingly, accompanied the massive spike in other STD rates, mostly in homosexual men, due to the false sense of safety the medication gave to them.

That is also supported by stats.

[fwdude]

"92% of HIV infections among men aged 13 to 24 was attributed to male-to-male sexual contact"

Does it escape most readers that that lowest stratification of the population includes CHILDREN of the age of 13?!!!!

[daniel1212]

I will start with the old adage, "you can lead a horse to water, ...." Just because a so-called "remedy" is made more available, that does not presuppose that the targeted problem population will avail themselves of the solution, or do so properly and effectively.

Which stats affirm:

"Despite biomedical advances in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention with antiretroviral pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the burden of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) remains high [1]. MSM are a high‐priority risk group for PrEP use based on their behavioral and biological risk factors [2, 3]."

"Of 3508 sexually active, HIV‐negative MSM, 34% met indications [condition that leads to the recommendation] for PrEP. The proportion with current PrEP use was 32% among MSM meeting indications and 11% among those without indications." 

"PrEP is a key part of HIV strategy globally. In the United States, PrEP is available through multiple mechanisms including national and state health insurance programs covering health care costs for those with low income, private insurance plans, programs for those without health insurance and copay assistance from the drug manufacturer or US states [5, 6]." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8488229/#:~:text=Results,11%25%20among%20those%20without%20indications)

[daniel1212]

She improved enough to run 15 miles. Her doctor did a pre-test of her kidney function before starting the Truvada. A follow up check of kidney function showed a 30% decrease inside a two week time frame. She discontinued use of Truvada.

Short term again, long term loss. Maybe like me and sugar but far more severe.

[telescope115]

Yeah, they both need to go…

[Organic Panic]

Would the AIDS and homosexual lobby allow an AIDS cure or vaccine? A lot of people lose their jobs and even more lose their power.

[newzjunkey]

You already subsidize such things through your health insurance and healthcare costs. We also subside sweets consumers who turn diabetic. Smokers and their cancers and lung diseases. Outdoors types with their melanomas. Births that can’t be afforded by the parents. The list is nearly infinite.

Gilead has long offered a discount card that could make at least some of their HIV medications free to patients.

Trump made it a priority of his administration to reduce and eliminate new HIV infections by making prep free and widely available. HIV is costly (and a health risk factor even for undetectable cases) and since the Left has decriminalize knowingly and deceptively infecting another person with HIV, there needs to be a counter to that injustice.

This is sound public policy. Of course not everyone can take PREP meds due to side effects. Withholding PREP won’t stop the transmission of HIV or other STIs but PREP can reduce healthcare costs overall.

[fwdude]

... PREP can reduce healthcare costs overall.

Total BS. Reducing risk only increases risky behavior by creating a false sense of safety. The exponential increase in other STD's to all-time record rates during the past decade is proof of that. And the presence of STD's, particularly syphilis and gonorrhea, greatly increase the chances of contracting HIV. It's a vicious cycle which has proven fulfillment.

If the government tried to reduce the incidences of head shots due to people playing Russian roulette by providing them with 10-shooters to replace their 6-shooter revolvers, more people would conceivably play, or the ones now playing would play more, for monetary gain. The net result is that more people would likely die even though the risk has been reduced.

[daniel1212]

Would the AIDS and homosexual lobby allow an AIDS cure or vaccine? A lot of people lose their jobs and even more lose their power.

Even with required boosters, in dependence upon bureaucracy?

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile....

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-proposes-individual-risk-assessment-blood-donations-while-continuing-safeguard-us-blood-supply

Scroll down for the bit on PrEP.

Another reason to pray you never need one.

[daniel1212]

Blood establishments would still be required to test all blood donations for evidence of certain transfusion-transmitted infections, including HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

The only blood I want it spiritual, as in In whom [the Lord Jesus] we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: (Colossians 1:14)

[wildbill]

Can the government force them to manufacture and actually bring the drug to market.???

If the government can force a business to operate at a loss, how long will the business survive while operating under that mandate.

[daniel1212]

Can the government force them to manufacture and actually bring the drug to market.??? If the government can force a business to operate at a loss, how long will the business survive while operating under that mandate.

They have their means of "persuasion." Like as they do in defining a "protected class" based not on such non-moral aspects as race, religion, skin color etc., but psychological orientation toward an immoral behavior, and requiring the hiring of such, and withholding aid from countries that do not engage in this confusion. Proxy servants of Satan work to bring all to essentially salute the flag of Sodom. Or else. Just takes time.