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Truvada costs ~$2000.00 per month - that fact should be included in any and all articles on PrEP
Truvada as prep explicitly exists as a preventative tool for HIV-1 virus. Its inserts and drug information EXPLICITLY states that it is not effective against HIV-2 (the multiple drug-resistant strain). The case study presented here does not undermine the preventative value of Prep in conjunction with traditional phrophlatic practices. It simply reinforces what the CDC already knows (and reports) about what Prep doesn’t protect against...
That is why people should practice safe sex (condoms), all the much more so if they keep changing partners constantly. We don't want reckless behavior to bring a drug resistant strain of HIV into the general public, now that science is slowly reaching a point in which it has a real chance at destroying the virus/retrovirus for good. PrEP is certainly a great tool, but should not substitute condoms, much less if living a highly promiscuous life.
Please do not rely on the 99% effectiveness figure given in the article. It is true that no one who adhered to Truvada contracted the virus in the study. BUT, the participants assigned to take Truvada self-selected their adherence - they got to choose if they took the pill or not, which makes the trial NOT randomized. In other words, yes, people who took Truvada didn't contract HIV. But we do not know if the Truvada is what protected them, or if adherent individuals also used condoms, etc.
Michael In Lexington, you can get an STD orally without a big old huge sore being visible. Happened to me.
Why do so many people want to make this topic so complicated? 35 years of research, dozens of HIV medications developed and still over 30 million deaths. Two original facts remain. 1) HIV can be spread through unsafe sex, and 2) there is no cure. Period. Simple. Protect YOURSELF. Turning to a $50 daily pill that doesn't even claim to be totally effective "must be used as part of an HIV prevention plan...condoms" makes no sense whatsoever. Wishful thinking for some, but completely false.
This is the main reason why 28 years ago when I tested positive in 1987 and given 18 months to live... I said to myself, If I have to die so be it ... leave whatever is inside me ALONE... whatever strain or whatever I contracted I didn't need help to make it mutate into something that WOULD kill me. Since I;ve never taken medications the strain I have is the same stain as 28 years ago and it's not bothing me so I don't want any doctor to bother it.
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The stupidity of the gay community never fails to surprise me. Truvada is about big pharma selling you drugs, making shiploads of money and making a FOOL of you. How do I discern that? Because many of are so steeped in idiocy, you think that taking Truvada means you don't have to worry about syphilis, gonorrhea, chylamidia, etc. Being a drug addict, having anal sex without condoms is bad, okay? But you'll never understand that. You better choose carefully what Peter Goesinya, goes in ya.
April 14, 2019