Posted on 01/29/2016 4:57:58 AM PST by upchuck
SAN FRANCISCO â On online dating sites, Matthew Sachs identifies himself as a 5-foot-8, 130-pound grad student who likes hiking, performance art and community service. He says heâs interested in meeting a broad range of guys, from jocks to geeks, and notes that â oh, by the way â heâs âOn PrEP.â
Those four letters stand for a daily medical regimen in which healthy individuals take a blue oval pill to lower their risk of becoming infected with HIV. The treatment, known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, has become so common in the Bay Areaâs gay community that itâs frequently mentioned in social media profiles from Facebook to Scruff.
Since the first breakthrough research was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2010, the once-a-day dose of Truvada has consistently been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection by as much as 90 percent. The results of the most recent study, which was published in September, were even more encouraging: Not one of the 600 people taking the drug became infected over two years.
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Fears of the drugâs possible side effects are hampering such efforts, as is the stigma of being a âTruvada whoreâ associated with HIV or risky behaviors, public health officials say. There are also the lingering worries, expressed most vocally by Michael Weinstein of the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, that PrEP could backfire. The internationally known activist said that he is troubled that some people are using it as a âparty drug,â not taking it regularly or buying it on the black market as a way to justify not using condoms â which makes the spread of other sexually transmitted diseases more likely.
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America is lost, and one of the markers us the protection of perversion and mental illness know as homosexuality.
One little reading of the Bible could do a better job!
Wrong. If you want to avoid all STDs, don’t have sex with an infected person of either sex.
don’t be a queer
wrong don’t have sex
Having failed to learn any lesson from the contraceptive Pill, sexual deviants now introduce a Pill for queers. I’m sure there will be no social repercussions.
Another example of how our technology has vastly outrun our morality.
These “people” are part of a long-range mission to undermine the morals and values of this blessed republic.
HUH, I interpret that drug breakthrough as just another sign of the approaching apocalypse.
Remain a virgin until marriage, then marry a virgin and be faithful, AND don't do IV drugs. Then you won't catch STD's including HIV. It's that simple.
Don’t have sex with anyone but your faithful uninfected spouse.
And don’t inject drugs with needles used by infected persons.
Don’t forget to stock your own blood. The full ‘blood donations open to ALL’ is quietly lurking around the corner.
Any transfusion thereafter is going to be like Russian roulette.
Not if they keep buggering each other.
If the pill was saltpeter...
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