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The most vulnerable populations are those living with HIV already, and we need this drug and all of the resources it takes to aqcquire it just to survive. Those who don't have enough self control to avoid the greatest horror to ever visit gay men need professional mental health workers, not chemicals, to save them from themselves. Poz magazine actually printed the words "Prep Pride" on the cover??? What's to be proud of? I'd be embarrassed to have so little self control after a three-decade horror that some of us are still living, if for nothing else, as a warning to be heeded. Pride, indeed.
WTF don't you mention PEP, which is qn easier, less expensive, and far more concrete preventive than its later discovered form Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. And it's an outrage that you don't mention that people already infected, but in treatment, are virtually safe from infecting others - the British Columbian rubric "Treatment IS Prevention" - and other chemical/behavioral interventions are far less critical! Surely compliance IS critical - among the infected and non-infected people at risk. Regardless of race, language, income or other status. But, with a life changing status at risk, and a $400,000 public expense for treatment from diagnosis to death, there ought to be plenty of incentives to go well beyond PrEP. Finally, you might also mention that PrEP was first discovered by nurses who would use AZT if they had a high risk needle stick. And only decades later would the Truvada manufacturer pay for a clinical trial to re-discover the obvious.
Mike
What about the 50% of Poz gay men who aren't on treatment? Does this magazine even care about the welfare those of us who actually have HIV? C'mon Poz, you used to be more than a mouthpiece for BigPharma. We deserve better than this!
October 6, 2014