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I worked with the Columbia University and CDC on an 8 month Truvada usage test and had no issues whatsoever with my health or contracting any viruses. I had no change in kidney or liver health or function. The purpose of the preventative is not to stop using condoms or otherwise impede you health. You need to be smart anytime you have sex md the Truvada will help protect you in the case of a mishap. Be smart, be safe and use condoms and PrEP to prevent problems.
THANK YOU PETER.THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING,THANK YOU FOR ALL THE PROTESTING,ALL THE BANNERS YOU HELD UP,ALL THE MEETINGS........EVERYTHING YOUVE DONE...IF IT WASNT FOR YOU&COUNTLESS OTHERS,I WOULD HAVE DIED FROM AIDS IN 2008.....YOU ARE A BRAVE,COURAGES MAN....&I JUST WANT TO SAY....THANK YOU... :)...if u dont mind..may i say.....ACT UP,FIGHT BACK,FIGHT AIDS!!!!!!!
I have just been wondering about the ongoing effectiveness of truvada as a total preventive. Now I am just asking this because I don't know: if truvada as a post-exposure pill (within 72 hours after an exposure and then taken for at least a month). What if you meet someone and they expose you several times in a weekend? or you are anally receptive every day, several times a day by the same (or more) partner(s)...Can truvada actually stop this ongoing onslaught of virus? I guess it would certainly help if the top guy was on truvada as well right? IF this is true that truvada can totally stop HIV no matter how much exposure one receives, then shouldn't it be more highly touted as an indeed miracle such as a vaccine?...again, I don't know, and that is why I am asking...
I am all for PrEP as the newest tool in the fight against HIV. Too bad PrEP doesn't also protect us from syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes, hepatitis, HPV, CMV, bowel parasites,and all the other germs we are exposed to if we have a lot of sex with a lot of partners.
And yet, the bars, baths and bushes are always busy - SOMEONE is going, and it isn't just the party boys. The more NEG people scream about HIV, the more I think they just want 1978 to return (for them!).
Mark S. King
Thanks, Peter. It confounds me how quickly so many gay men are ready to raise the bar on our sexual behavior "standards." No threat of HIV if you're taking PrEP? Well then, how about those other terrible infections? God forbid we should *ever* get back to a place where gay men can fuck the same way as most every other couple on the planet. Let's be real. I was sexually active in the late 70's and early 80's, and the very idea of getting The Clap just makes me feel nostalgic. But I suppose that makes me some kind of irresponsible slut -- even to other gay men. Our internalized self-hatred for our own bodies and sexuality breaks my heart.
August 4, 2014