One Pill Will Keep you from HIV after Exposure but you need to know your status!

                                                                    

Finally we have one pill, not a cocktail of pills to prevent you from getting HIV after exposure but just one. This is something the CDC was fighting for political reasons. Pressure was being put on the CDC by congress with the excuse they were concerned that this would give young people a license to have unprotected sex. They forgot that there is no license required now to have sex and every day they held from putting forward this PrEp solution the numbers of people turning to HIV increased  needlessly. But that’s how the government is particularly the Republicans in the house of representatives. They want to regulate sex and as payment for people’s disobedience it should be HIV.  So again this is a reminder for those that are not aware of Truvada which is an easy pill to take and you only take once a day. For those that are aware like me, our job is to preach it  through our social accounts. A little reminder here and there will help.  As a matter of fact the studies show that reminding people to use protection works. If you are not HV (there is no such thing as HIV negative only HIV tested, which only means everyone is technically HIV unless they take a test and continue to test through out their sex lives unless living in a monogamous relationship). Did you get that? I can repeat it, just re read it :)

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You are probably aware that last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a much broader recommendation for the use of preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. They did this because the incidence of HIV infection has remained stubbornly high, at about 50,000 new cases a year, even though we have the means to prevent it through the regular use of condoms, treatment of people who have HIV infection, and so on. But unfortunately, the incidence has not gone down.

One additional potential tool is the use of PrEP. The CDC has recommended it now for people who are at high risk of acquiring HIV, specifically men who have sex with men and are in serodiscordant relationships; men who have sex with men who have recently been diagnosed with a bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI); and those who do not regularly use condoms. The CDC also recommends PrEP for heterosexuals with the same characteristics (in serodiscordant relationships, have a newly diagnosed STI), and if they are located in a high-prevalence area and do not regularly use condoms. They furthermore recommend it for injection-drug users who are sharing needles, and also for some other characteristics.

This is the recommendation. But how will we implement it? It will not be easy, and I believe it will be challenging for 3 reasons.

Source: Dr. Paul Sax, from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.