Why Aren't More Straight People on PrEP?

HIVPlusMag ^ | January 10, 2023 | Andrew Stillman

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Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is the number one form of HIV prevention, but marketing efforts for the medication are historically targeted towards men who have sex with men.

While this community is largely at a higher risk for HIV, this has left an open gap in messaging for the heterosexual community.

In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that heterosexual people made up 22 percent of the 30,635 new HIV diagnoses that year.

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Perceptions that HIV is a “gay disease” play a part in the struggle to broaden the message for HIV care.

[fwdude]

Duh, for the same reason I don’t have to be on anti-malaria drugs.

More efforts to make “AIDS everyone’s problem.”

[BenLurkin]

The vector should have been isolated when the disease was first identified.

[HamiltonJay]

Heterosexual transmission of HIV is much lower....

Combine that with most straight people aren’t having dozens of partners a year, let alone a week...

And don’t feed me your nonsense, that homosexuals are just like the rest of us... Go walk the Castro district and tell me that.

Cops are busting dozens of straights every weekend at county parks and rest areas for getting it on on a regular basis.

Need to find the name of the film documentary of the making of the hepatitis vaccine, it was disturbing beyond belief. They went out in NYC and other major cities interviewing these homosexual men trying to find ones with natural immunity, to try to identify what was giving them immunity in order to develop the vaccine. The interviews were beyond disturbing. Most of these men were having engaging in acts with multiple men a night every single night...

Folks are free to live their lives how they like, but don’t insult me by telling me they are just like everyone else. They are human beings like everyone else, but the lifestyle they lead is not remotely the same as most other people.

[fwdude]

Here’s a good reason:

The most common side effects of the HIV PrEP drug Truvada — emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate — include headaches, rash, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss. Rare but serious side effects include kidney and liver problems, bone loss, potentially fatal lactic acidosis, and immune reconstitution syndrome­.
(https://www.drugwatch.com/tenofovir-disoproxil-fumarate/side-effects/ )

“Medication for the well” is never a good idea when it comes with those types of risks. Understand that PrEP is comprised of AIDS DRUGS which are nuclear strength and almost always have serious effects of the body’s systems.

[Boogieman]

“In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that heterosexual people made up 22 percent of the 30,635 new HIV diagnoses that year.”

And I’ll bet money the vast majority of those 22 percent were junkies, prostitutes, or pornographic “performers”.

[V_TWIN]

if my math is right and we’re talking in the US only, we’re about 0.00204212121% of the population.

[daniel1212]

How much does PEP cost? A complete course of PEP can cost from $597 to $1,000 without insurance.May 13, 2021 - https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv/post-exposure-prophylaxis

How much is 30 pills of Truvada? The cost for Truvada oral tablet (200 mg-300 mg) is around $1,774 for a supply of 30 tablets, depending on the pharmacy you visit. Quoted prices are for cash-paying customers and are not valid with insurance plan

PrEP drugs like Truvada and Descovy can cost over $1700 a month $22,000 to $30,000 a year without insurance or assistance. You can save on PreP costs with manufacturer copay cards, a generic version of Truvada, or the government’s Ready, Set, PrEP program, which offers free medication to eligible participants. https://www.goodrx.com/truvada/truvada-hiv-prep-cost-generic-how-to-save

The United States is expected to spend more than $26 billion annually on HIV. (https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/facts-statistics-infographic) 

 

CDC estimates indicate about 20 percent of the U.S. population – approximately one in five people in the U.S. – had an STI on any given day in 2018, and STIs acquired that year will cost the American healthcare system nearly $16 billion in healthcare costs alone. (https://www.cdc.gov/std/statistics/prevalence-2020-at-a-glance.htm) 

 

"STIs and their complications amount to about $16 billion annually in direct medical costs. HIV imposes the largest financial burden, costing $12.6 billion in direct medical costs, followed by HPV at $1.7 billion, chlamydia at $156.7 million, gonorrhea at $162.1 million, and syphilis at $39.9 million." (https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/STI-brief.pdf) 

"The estimated discounted lifetime cost for persons who become HIV infected at age 35 is $326,500 (60% for antiretroviral medications, 15% for other medications, 25% non-drug costs). [Undiscounted "mean lifetime costs are $597,300 ($4,200)" "Discounted costs are highlighted throughout because they represent economic costs that take into account time preferences of individuals and society and the opportunity cost of funds"] The Lifetime Medical Cost Savings from Preventing HIV in the United States

Costs also can include those for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) [which was] at more than $1,700 for 30 tablets (https://mosaicscience.com/story/hiv-prep-truvada-prevention-sti-std-lgbtqi-gay-condom-pride/).

The cost for  PrEP medication is about  2,000 a month, and which "Most health insurance plans, including Medicaid, cover." (https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/stds-hiv-safer-sex/hiv-aids/prep) For any Medicaid insured HIV-negative adult 18 years of age or older patients, lab testing and prescription medication costs are 100% covered. (https://www.louisianahealthhub.org/teleprep/) 

In 2017, around 61,300 people were actively taking PrEP.

(https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/western-central-europe-north-america/usa) with the rate of PrEP users per 100,000 population in 2018 being 68. (https://aidsvu.org/local-data/united-states)

The Ready, Set, PrEP program makes PrEP medication available at no cost for qualifying recipients who lack prescription drug coverage, and  are tested for HIV with a negative result, and have a prescription for PrEP. (https://www.getyourprep.com/)

EDIT: "the federal government has announced that almost all health insurers must cover the HIV prevention pill, known as PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, with no cost sharing — including for the drug itself and, crucially, for clinic visits and lab tests...This means...Truvada or Descovy, the two approved forms of PrEP, should now be totally free for almost all insured individuals....when taken daily, the tablet reduces men’s risk of contracting the virus from sex with other men by more than 99 percent...PrEP use remains largely limited to white gay and bisexual men...Gilead readily provides PrEP for free to lower-income people who lack health insurance, but the pharmaceutical company does not cover the associated clinic visits and lab tests...Since this spring, Truvada has been available in a generic form with a list price as low as $30 per month. By comparison, Descovy’s list price is currently $1,930 and Truvada’s is $1,842.... (https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/prep-hiv-prevention-pill-must-now-totally-free-almost-insurance-plans-rcna1470)

Which raises  raises private insurance rates and or taxes for all who pay them.  

Such are just part of the financial and societal costs  that affect every one to varying degrees due to man disobeying God's program, in which sexual union is only between male and female in marriage. And which provides the stable safe environment for trust and intimacy and for  children which are to result, versus  fornication as well as artificial contraceptives.

 

And beyond the financial and societal costs is the spiritual cost, of separation from God now and eternal damnation later  due to impenitent sin. For which only repentance and committed faith in the risen Lord Jesus is the solution, for Christ the Son of God  was sent by God the Father to be the savior of the world. And who therefore gave Himself for our sins on the cross of His death, paying the price for our forgiveness with His sinless shed blood. Thanks be to God.

- More https://peacebyjesuscom.blogspot.com/2019/10/negative-effects-of-homosexual.html

[Olog-hai]

In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that heterosexual people made up 22 percent of the 30,635 new HIV diagnoses that year …

Pfft. That consists of people who “identify as” heterosexual while engaging in homosexual acts.

[PGR88]

Great idea of the lavender fascists - EVERYONE must be forced to get the prep (or vax). You know, to protect everyone.....

[Wilderness Conservative]

Well, because the only thing that goes up my @ss is when I get a colonoscopy and the only thing that goes in my veins is nothing. But that’s just me.

[daniel1212]

The most common side effects of the HIV PrEP drug Truvada — emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate — include headaches, rash, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss. Rare but serious side effects include kidney and liver problems, bone loss, potentially fatal lactic acidosis, and immune reconstitution syndrome­. (https://www.drugwatch.com/tenofovir-disoproxil-fumarate/side-effects/ )

Common side effects of the practice of sodomy:

Although only approximately 7% of adult and adolescent males reported having had male-to-male sexual contact at some point in their lives, 82% of HIV infections among males in 2018 were attributed to male-to-male sexual contact. (CDC: Estimated HIV Incidence and Prevalence in the
United States, 2015–2019P. 7) 

 92% of HIV infections among men aged 13 to 24 was attributed to male-to-male sexual contact, and young gay and bisexual men accounted for 83% (6,385) of all new HIV diagnoses in people aged 13 to 24 in 2019, and 81% of diagnoses of HIV infection among all Adolescents and Young Adults.

And which practice (historically)  has resulted in a greatly increased incidence of other infectious diseases,   from Meningitis to Monkey pox and premature death.  Which diseases includes Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis A and B, HPV, Syphilis, HIV to Meningitis and body dysmorphia and eating disorders and recently Monkey pox. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men have accounted for 83% of primary and secondary syphilis cases where sex of sex partner was known in the United States. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men have been found to be 17 times more likely to get anal cancer than heterosexual men. (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7138a1.htm)

 

Besides such diseases, even when their disease is well controlled, people with HIV can develop aging-related conditions such as cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, kidney and liver disease, osteoporosis, and cognitive impairment decades ahead of their HIV-negative counterparts, and their life expectancy is significantly reduced.) 

 

A 2021 study of comparison of dementia incidence and prevalence between individuals (90% male) after age 50 with and without HIV infection in primary care from 2000 to 2016 found that HIV was associated with an 80% increase in dementia diagnosis overall compared with HIV-negative people. (https://www.poz.com/article/even-modern-era-people-hiv-increased-risk-dementia; https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Abstract/2022/03010/Comparison_of_dementia_incidence_and_prevalence.13.aspx  

 There were 16,350 deaths in 2017 alone among adults and adolescents diagnosed with HIV in the United States and 6 dependent areas. [like as is usually the case with deaths attributed to the flu and COVID-19, deaths attributed to AIDS refers to killing indirectly].

For the receptive sodomite the estimated average chance of contracting HIV can range from 1.38% - about one transmission occurring for every 71 exposures, male or female - (https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/chances-of-getting-hiv) to over 20% - equivalent to 1 transmission per 5 exposures via unprotected sex with an HIV-positive person who has acute HIV infection.. (https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/sexual-and-reproductive-health/hiv-aids/causes/risk-of-exposure.html)   

In 2016 the rate of people living with HIV per 100,000 population was 368, with the death rate being 6. Male-to-male sexual contact made up  82.4% of HIV infections among males in 2017, while heterosexual contact made up 85.7% of HIV infections among females. The rate of Black males living with an HIV diagnosis is 5.6 times that of White males. The rate of Black females living with an HIV diagnosis is 17.6 times that of White females. The rate of Hispanic/Latino males living with an HIV diagnosis is 2.5 times that of White males. The rate of Hispanic/Latina females living with an HIV diagnosis is 4.2 times that of White females. (https://aidsvu.org/local-data/united-states)

The South has the highest number of people living with HIV, but if population size is taken into account, the Northeast has the highest rate of people living with HIV.

One of the diseases that is far more prevalent among MSM than other population groups is that of anal cancer, which is diagnosed in about 2 people out of every 100,000 people in the general population. In contrast, it is estimated that MSMs that are not infected with HIV are 20 times more likely to be diagnosed with anal cancer. HPV is present in approximately 65% of HIV negative MSMs and 95% of MSMs who are HIV positive. Anal cancer is caused by the same strains of HPV (Human Papillomavirus)  that cause cervical cancer in women. (https://cancer-network.org/cancer-information/gay-men-and-cancer/anal-cancer-hiv-and-gaybisexual-men)

Also reported, "People living with HIV in Canada had eight times the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other non-AIDS-related dementia as their HIV-negative counterparts, and they were diagnosed 12.5 years earlier [which in part may be due to more medical attention], according to an analysis published in BMJ Open. They also had higher rates of several other age-related chronic conditions....Antiretroviral treatment has been associated with kidney damage and cardiovascular disease, and viral hepatitis and alcohol use—both common among HIV-positive people—can cause liver disease."  (https://www.poz.com/article/people-hiv-diagnosed-dementia-13-years-earlier)

 And a new study shows evidence that  "HIV-positive people are at an increased risk of age-related diseases such as some cancers, frailty, osteoporosis, kidney disease, and neurocognitive disease. Researchers think that it is the HIV itself that accelerates the aging process by 14 years, rather than medications used to treat it."  (https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2015/03/25/study-people-hiv-age-14-years-faster)

Thus this practice has been primarily responsible for more than 700,000 people with AIDS having died (as of 2017 since 1981) in the USA since the beginning of the epidemic.    (Worldwide, 77.3 million people have contracted HIV and 35.4 million have died of AIDS-related illnesses since the beginning of the pandemic in 1981 (https://health.usnews.com/conditions/hiv-aids/articles/hiv-statistics)

And while the US rate has  fallen by nearly half from 2010 to 2017, (https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2020/hiv-related-death-rate.html) it remains that the predominate means of HIV transmission is that of sodomy, (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html)  despite decades of attempting to tame it into being "safe." 

[fwdude]

Yeah, the definitions get loosey-goosey to protect the narrative. I’ll bet that a lot of these “heterosexuals” contracting HIV are getting some same-sex action on the side.

Men almost NEVER contract HIV from women; women are not transmitters of the virus sexually. Men are the sexual transmitters. That’s why lesbians are not banned from donating blood for that reason. Being a junkie comes with all kinds of risks, and HIV is just one of them.

[Tell It Right]

The Dims are a cult routinely believing their own doublethink.

From the article: While this community is largely at a higher risk for HIV...

Also from the article: Perceptions that HIV is a “gay disease”...

Basically they want you to know it's mainly gay men who get it, while at the same time they want you to believe it's wrong to call it a gay disease.

That's like believing CO₂ is a pollutant while also believing we need lots and lots more trees. Or believing cops are systemically corrupt while also believing the only people who should be allowed to have guns or cops. Or believing people are automatically born straight or gay (born attracted to males or females) while also believing people are not born male or female themselves.

So many of the Dims' loudest and most repeated beliefs contradict each other. I guess if you're a Dim long enough you get used to that kind of doublethink.

[algore]

So didnt they decide to allow homosexual blood doners recently?

[SIDENET]

Rare but serious side effects include

I've had "rare but serious side effects" from many medications I've taken.

I'm either just a special guy, or "rare" isn't always so rare.

[daniel1212]

In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that heterosexual people made up 22 percent of the 30,635 new HIV diagnoses that year …

Pfft. That consists of people who “identify as” heterosexual while engaging in homosexual acts.

And the 22 percent includes via drugs as well as women, while as concerns young men, see my post above.

[algore]

So didnt they decide to allow homosexual blood doners recently?

[Organic Panic]

“heterosexual people made up 22 percent “

How many of those are IV drug users?

[daniel1212]

The most common side effects of the HIV PrEP drug Truvada — emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate — include headaches, rash, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss. Rare but serious side effects include kidney and liver problems, bone loss, potentially fatal lactic acidosis, and immune reconstitution syndrome­.

Which is said in 5 seconds while a happy couple enjoy a sunny day at the park...

[fightin kentuckian]

Agreed however I think a larger part of that 22% are men who are afraid to come out of the closet but still secretly had sex with men.