- 04 Aug 2016 14:17
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So we have a drug that costs £400 a month and has very high effectiveness to prevent the spread of HIV. You need to take a pill every day which some argue will not be cost effective for the ‘high risk’ gay men who have undisciplined lives anyway.
Here is the news on the BBC court case coverage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36946000
And here is the guardians own jones (a gay man) giving the predictable ‘gays lives matter’ melodrama.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... mens-lives
And here is the daily mail giving the predictable moral outrage from the right.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -gone.html
What do you think? I think the NHS has to make ‘death panel’ choices everyday. Prevention is important but this cost is just too high. In what other case do we pay £400 a month just on prevention in the same way? Who would be entitled or just gay people? A condom is just as effective.
Using Prep has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection by 86%.
The once-a-day pill, which costs £400 a month per person, works by disabling the virus to stop it multiplying.
It is currently used in the US, Canada, Australia and France to help protect the most at-risk gay men.
So we have a drug that costs £400 a month and has very high effectiveness to prevent the spread of HIV. You need to take a pill every day which some argue will not be cost effective for the ‘high risk’ gay men who have undisciplined lives anyway.
Here is the news on the BBC court case coverage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36946000
And here is the guardians own jones (a gay man) giving the predictable ‘gays lives matter’ melodrama.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... mens-lives
And here is the daily mail giving the predictable moral outrage from the right.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -gone.html
What do you think? I think the NHS has to make ‘death panel’ choices everyday. Prevention is important but this cost is just too high. In what other case do we pay £400 a month just on prevention in the same way? Who would be entitled or just gay people? A condom is just as effective.