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Obama: “We can finish the job” and end AIDS by 2030
While acknowledging “there is more work to do,” Obama highlighted the progress made so far.
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The man who contracted HIV while on PrEP speaks out
He’s still very much in favor of the drug.
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Gay man adhering to daily Truvada contracts drug-resistant HIV
While PrEP is beneficial, it seems it can’t be relied upon as “an infallible magic bullet.”
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Half of black gay men will get HIV in their lifetime, CDC says
And so will a quarter of Latino gay men…unless prevention efforts scale up fast
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Larry Kramer has changed his mind about PrEP
In 2014, Kramer said, “There’s something to me cowardly about taking Truvada instead of using a condom.”
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Daily HIV medications might be replaced by bimonthly injections
The results of an 8-month study into injectable medication for HIV are out, and the news is good.
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Zachary Quinto clarifies his stance on HIV
“There was this thing that I was ‘slut-shaming.’ Anybody who knows me knows that that is the last thing I would ever do.”
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Human Rights Campaign backs use of daily HIV-prevention pill
The largest U.S. gay-rights organization Saturday endorsed efforts to promote the use of a once-a-day pill to prevent HIV infection and called on insurers to provide more generous coverage of the drug. Some doctors have been reluctant to prescribe the drug, Truvada, on the premise that it might encourage high-risk, unprotected sexual behavior…
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Commentary
Damon L. Jacobs: The Calm in the PrEP Storm
In 1977, I ran for senior class president, hoping against hope that my penchant for wearing platform shoes and fellating men in my spare time might somehow get overlooked by my high school classmates in Bossier City, Louisiana. I lost that faith when my campaign signs throughout the school hallways were vandalized. As the student body arrived that morning we were greeted with the word “FAG” scrawled across the posters in red spray paint…