Today, I’m going to let someone else weigh in on Truvada #HIV #AIDS
Via Feast of Fun (my weigh in on the bottom)
A battle is erupting over a new way to prevent HIV infections.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation launched a national ad campaign to discredit PrEP or Pre Exposure Prophylaxis, a new HIV prevention technique that involves taking Truvada (an existing HIV medication) on a daily basis.
The LA based health organization blasted this approach, saying there is no magic pill, and that it’s just a misguided attempt to put hiv negative men on unnecessary meds to enrich the fat cats in the pharmaceutical industry to the tune of $10,000 a year per patient.
But by taking this medication prior to getting exposed to HIV people at high risk could increase their chances for staying negative by as much as 73% in some cases.
Why is the leadership of the nation’s largest AIDS organization arguing against a treatment that could potentially save millions of gay men from becoming HIV positive?
Today, gay men’s health advocate, Jim Pickett, from the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, joins us to explain the controversy surrounding this new treatment, and the possible reasons it may be misunderstood.
Jim answers all your questions on health, STD’s and HIV.
The podcast is at the link above for their site, and if you’re like me it’s a little hard to find. Look just to the left top corner of the picture and there it is – see it? There ya go…
I’ve weighed in plenty on Truvada, PrEP, and the unheard of stance that AHF has taken on the subject. They’re not providing anything other than their website, a press release and full page ads taken almost verbatim from it, and my emails to them have gone unanswered asking for articulation on their baffling position.
Said it before, I’ll say it again (see related posts below) – ANYTHING that could possibly be a viable solution to reducing infections is worth exploring in full before the verdict is rendered. Slamming Truvada this early out of the gate is illogical, not very well thought out, and smacks more of a political stance than a sound community solution.
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