By Lenny Bernstein Lenny Bernstein Reporter covering health and medicine Email Bio Follow May 9 at 7:42 PM The pharmaceutical company that makes a once-a-day pill that protects users against HIV has agreed to donate enough medication to cover as many as 200,000 people for 11 years, the Trump administration announced Thursday.
“The majority of Americans who are at risk and who could protect themselves with PrEP are still not receiving the medication,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement. “This agreement will help close that gap substantially.” Taken daily, PrEP is more than 90 percent effective at preventing sexual transmission of the virus and more than 70 percent effective at blocking it among people who inject street drugs and share needles. Only about 10 to 20 percent of the 1.1 million people considered at risk of contracting HIV are on PrEP. A disproportionate number of those not on medication are black and Latino men who have sex with other men.
“It will make a great difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, and it will be a tremendous step toward ending the epidemic,” he said.
And yet due to the new “ healthcare by conscience “ many people who need care might be refused. So much for progress.
This is a hot stock tip indeed! Charity like this makes people who want to ensure safety look ungrateful - and establishes a drug as an industry standard. It will also discredit the deeply horrified few who understand what inhibiting reverse transcriptase acually does.
Imagine, if you will, a country that would make available a drug to prevent HIV to everyone. Should health be some sort of lottery ?
I think donation is well deserved and wel done 👍
Looks like Trump is apply pressure on drug makers. Seems like the big companies are trying to help out the underprivileged much more now then a couple of years ago. It’s time for the big boy CEOs show some humanity and effort to 🇺🇸.
Sounds like liberal witchcraft...
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