It's good news for this place in the world and I hope other places in the world pay attention and make these medical marvels available to everyone. In the EU country I live in, you can have access to these kinds of drugs if you say you are a prostitute and you have to somehow prove you are a sex worker to get access to them. It looks like in Innery Sydney, Australia, they actually tried a different approach which made medicine available to people who wanted to protect themselves from accidental exposure. It's really a no-brainer, medical professionals and politicians: Stop making people feel guilty about having some fun a screwing around with people of the same sex and start helping them protect themselves when they're just a little too tipsy to think and have an "accident."
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I was reading that we might eliminate transmission globally by 2030.
It's not just the prep (profilactic) meds, if people with HIV are well managed with antiretrovirals they can't transmit the infection.
Yeah, I get that. But even antiretrovirals are not available to a lot of people. In Europe they must be approved and some of them are not. The same is true in the USA. Then, in the USA, you have to be able to afford them because your insurance will help you pay for them or you have lots of money. In Europe, where socialdemocracy is still in place, the public health system may or may not decide it's a thing you can have access to. If it decides you can't have access to it, you have to pay. So, um, you know, your point is a good one, but it's a moot point. I also did not directly refer to prophylactic drugs in my comment. You just assumed I was talking about them. Read my comment again and think about what I've said here about access to medicines that prevent the spread of the disease. You unwittingly made a ton of assumptions about my comment.
It’s a complex subject being overly simplified. So you may have expected that.. 🤨
Well, one of us is making a lot of assumptions.