ceruleancynic: barafurbear: anotheralexandros: tommytv: nychealth: Let’s stop HIV in New York
ceruleancynic:barafurbear:anotheralexandros:tommytv:nychealth:Let’s stop HIV in New York CityIf you are HIV-negative, PEP and PrEP can help you stay that way.If you are HIV-positive, PEP and PrEP can help protect your partners. Daily PrEPPrEP is a daily pill that can help keep you HIV-negative as long as you take it every day.Ask your doctor if PrEP (Pre-exposure Prophylaxis) may be right for you.Condoms give you additional protection against HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy. Emergency PEPIf you are HIV-negative and think you were exposed to HIV, immediately go to a clinic or emergency room and ask for PEP (Post-exposure Prophylaxis).PEP can stop HIV if started within 36 hours of exposure.You continue taking PEP for 28 days.Many insurance plans including Medicaid cover PEP and PrEP. Assistance may be available if you are uninsured. Visit NYC Health’s website to find out where to get PrEP or PEP in New York City.This is such a giant step that barely any people know about it seems, so amazing to see progress in the treatment of HIVI honestly thought this might be exaggeration but the CDC says that PrEP is 92% effective. Damn. Damn.reblogging because this deserves waaaay more attention D:I am amazed and INCREDIBLY GLAD that PEP and PrEP are actually being offered as part of a public health initiative. This is exactly the approach that’s been needed and hasn’t been there for the longest time. And the PrEP is Truvada! I remember when Truvada came out back in the mid 00s. We had a stockroom full of boxes of donated Truvada which got shipped to our facility in Nigeria. I vividly remember hauling cartons of this shit around. Back then, the organization for which I worked was focusing on a couple specific initiatives on ground, one of which was prevention of mother-to-child transmission, or PMTCT. HIV+ mothers can pass the virus to their babies at birth or via breastfeeding, which is a big deal in developing countries where safe and readily available water to mix up formula is scarce. I don’t know what they ended up concluding, I remember seeing a bunch of nevirapine articles that disagreed with one another, but they were focusing on the prevention of transmission rather than just trying to knock the virus down once it got hold of you. Prevention. Limiting the spread.PEP was always a thing for healthcare workers who had been exposed to potential infection, but having it available via a public health initiative is a REALLY GOOD THING. Even better? The availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis via a public health initiative. How about we don’t judge or shame people who are regularly exposed to HIV through whatever vector, sexual relationships or injecting drugs or whatever, how about we try helping these people not get the fucking virus, how about that?Sorry. I just…I know just enough about this to get how huge an improvement it could be in dealing with HIV. If this kind of approach were rolled out on a country-wide scale it could really maybe actually do something. -- source link
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