“PrEP Aware Week” Reminds You HIV Prevention Is for Every Body [VIDEOS]

POZ.com ^ | Oct 23, 2023 | Trent Straube

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Monday, October 23, to Sunday, October 29, marks PrEP Aware Week 2023, a public health campaign to boost awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV.

“The theme for PrEP Aware Week 2023 is ‘PrEP is for Every Body,’ which references two social movements: sex positivity acknowledging that all consensual sexual activities are fundamentally healthy; and body positivity, celebrating all bodies, regardless of size, shape, skin tone, gender, and physical abilities,” explain the campaign’s organizers on PrEP Aware’s website PrEPforSex.org.

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Did you know that PrEP is for YOU, FReepers? Yes, everyone apparently is at risk for HIV. The campaign lives on!!

[rdl6989]

This is going to be a fun thread.

[mewzilla]

PrEP ma6 be for anyone who needs a blood transfusion soon.

Along with HIV...

[Boogieman]

I don’t need any drugs for HIV prevention, thanks.

[NorthMountain]

Don’t engage in buggery.

[fwdude]

PrEP ma6 be for anyone who needs a blood transfusion soon.

That was on the tip of my brain. Yes, high-risk fags now feel emboldened to donate their likely diseased blood into the supply. The fact that they can't remember when the last Grindr hook-up was is a minor detail.

I wonder if we'll be allowed to hear about the spike in tranfusion HIV transmissions when it happens?

[dfwgator]

Don’t go in through the out door.

[Billthedrill]

all consensual sexual activities are fundamentally healthy

This is a lie. Consensual receptive anal sex is the entire reason we're even having this conversation.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Heart disease, cancer, dementia, so many diseases.

But wait, divert all that money to homosexual lifestyle diseases caused by unnatural acts. Spend billions researching "unnatural act medicine".

[Red6]

You never know!

You could trip and fall, and get HIV.

[heartwood]

Hey, I avoid HIV 24/7.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Everyone is at risk when they start letting homosexual men donate blood again. As I recall, outside of sharing needles, the only other real risk for strict heterosexuals (by strict I also mean women who don’t screw gay or bi men) was transfusions. Few thousand died from that.

Again, that mantra of “if it saves just one life” doesn’t apply when restricting the practices of the alphabet people are involved.

[Zuriel]

Listen 5 minutes or so this preacher preach against Bydun, Obozo, and the lyin dems concerning perversion starting at 1:08:30. By 1:11 he is pouring it on. And he preached this message while in dee cee last month.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vrSz1AMVzx4&pp=ygUicGFzdG9yIGdpbm8gamVubmluZ3Mgd2FzaGluZ3RvbiBkYw%3D%3D

[daniel1212]

As reported Mar 27, 2023,

  Medicaid is the largest source of insurance coverage for people with HIV in the United States, covering an estimated 40% of the nonelderly adults with HIV, compared to just 15% of the nonelderly adult population overall...Medicaid accounted for 45% of all federal HIV spending in FY221 and it is the largest source of public spending for HIV care in the U.S. In FY22, the federal government spent an estimated $13 billion on Medicaid services for people with HIV...Medicaid enrollment among people with HIV has grown over time  (https://www.kff.org/hivaids/issue-brief/medicaid-and-people-with-hiv/)

Before the Affordable Care Act, most individuals living with HIV were ineligible for Medicaid unless they had very low incomes, or were deemed permanently disabled due to an AIDS diagnosis. Starting in 2014, under the Affordable Care Act, states can receive federal Medicaid payments to provide coverage for the lowest income adults in their states, without regard to disability, parental status, or most other categorical limitations. (https://www.medicaid.gov/about-us/program-history/medicaid-50th-anniversary/entry/47641) 

Costs associated with engaging in sodomy 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 was 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) Under the Affordable Care Act, PrEP must be free under almost all health insurance plans. (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep/paying-for-prep/index.html) The rule says insurers must not charge copays, coinsurance or deductible payments for the quarterly clinic visits and lab tests required to maintain a PrEP prescription. (https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/prep-hiv-prevention-pill-must-now-totally-free-almost-insurance-plans-rcna1470) 

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)

A few states have their own drug assistance programs that cover out-of-pocket expenses for PrEP. Some will also cover the costs of doctor visits and lab tests. Requirements to qualify for these programs differ by state. (https://www.talktomira.com/post/how-much-is-prep-how-to-get-it-for-free-truvana-descovy) 

"Despite biomedical advances in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention with antiretroviral pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the burden of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) remains high [1]. MSM are a high‐priority risk group for PrEP use based on their behavioral and biological risk factors [2, 3]."

[Between 2017 and 2019] "of 3508 sexually active, HIV‐negative MSM, 34% met indications [condition that leads to the recommendation] for PrEP. The proportion with current PrEP use was 32% among MSM meeting indications and 11% among those without indications." 

"PrEP is a key part of HIV strategy globally. In the United States, PrEP is available through multiple mechanisms including national and state health insurance programs covering health care costs for those with low income, private insurance plans, programs for those without health insurance and copay assistance from the drug manufacturer or US states [5, 6]." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8488229/#:~:text=Results,11%25%20among%20those%20without%20indications)

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.

[daniel1212]

all consensual sexual activities are fundamentally healthy;

To the contrary:

In 2021, male-to-male sexual contact accounted for 67% (24,107) of all [not just men] new HIV diagnoses in the United States and dependent areas. In the same year, heterosexual contact accounted for 22% (8,059) of all HIV diagnoses. (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html)

(https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/basics/statistics/2023/new-hiv-diagnoses-in-the-us-and-dependent-areas-by-transmission-category-2021.png?_=27625)

"Young gay and bisexual men accounted for 84% (5,161) of all new HIV diagnoses in people aged 13 to 24 in 2020." 

And "in 2019, among transgender adults and adolescents, the largest percentage (93%) of diagnoses of HIV infections was for transgender MTF. And  in 2019, diagnoses of HIV infection among adolescent and young adult males (85%) and females (12%) accounted for approximately 97% of HIV diagnoses  (Table 8b") (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html; https://web.archive.org/web/20210707083722/https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/reports/hiv-surveillance/vol-32/content/special-focus-profiles.html)

(https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/group/gender/men/2020/cdc-hiv-men-diagnoses-bar-graph-700.png;    https://web.archive.org/web/20190807143141im_/https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/group/age/youth/Piecharts-03-large.png)

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 [all classes of] males in 2018 were attributed to male-to-male sexual contact. (CDC: Estimated HIV Incidence and Prevalence in the United States, 2015–2019 P. 7)  

In 2018 92% of HIV infections among men aged 13 to 24 was attributed to male-to-male sexual contact:

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/group/age/youth/cdc-hiv-youth-sex-700x698.png  

Similarly, in 2014: 

(https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/242689/file/Debaun%2013-2336(2).pdf)

And in 2016, "Gay and bisexual men continue to be most affected by the HIV epidemic in the U.S. At current rates, 1 in 6 MSM will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime, including 1 in 2 black MSM, 1 in 4 Latino MSM, and 1 in 11 white MSM." (https://www.hiv.gov/blog/half-of-black-gay-men-and-a-quarter-of-latino-gay-men-projected-to-be-diagnosed-within-their-lifetime/)

In 2019, gay, bisexual, and other men who reported male-to-male sexual contact accounted for 86% of estimated infections among all men. (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/overview/in-us/incidence.html)

As well as 80% of all new HIV cases (not just among men):

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/library/reports/hiv-surveillance/vol-33/infographics/cdc-hiv-diagnoses-by-gender-infographic-1920x1080.png

In 2019, 70% of all new HIV infections in the U.S. were among homosexual men, and 63% of all people in the US with HIV were homosexual men. (https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/fact-sheets/hiv/HIV-gay-bisexual-men.html) 

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/library/reports/hiv-surveillance/vol-33/Graphics-03.png?_=75165

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/statistics/overview/in-us/HIV-in-the-US_2022-49-large.png?_=61599

 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/fact-sheets/hiv/HIV-gay-bisexual-men.html

In 2019, heterosexual men accounted for 7% of all HIV diagnoses, and heterosexual women accounted for 16% of HIV diagnoses. 

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[Trump_Triumphant]

The new HIV meds give the queers the license to screw around like animals like they did in the seventies and eighties.They never learn.

[daniel1212]

all consensual sexual activities are fundamentally healthy

This is a lie. Consensual receptive anal sex is the entire reason we're even having this conversation.

True, but heterosexual fornication also is overall costly:

 

https://www.cdc.gov/std/statistics/2021/syndemic-infographic-2023.pdf)

Some older stats on Adultery, Fornication, and Sodomy can be seen here. 

In addition to which are the ongoing financial costs:

https://www.cdc.gov/std/statistics/2021/syndemic-infographic-2023.pdf)

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

[Secret Agent Man]

Lgbtq-prep

[NetAddicted]

Yes, MSM won’t allow that info to be spread through media. They’ll come up with some protection lie. Why isn’t the fact that HIV infection causes its infected to prematurely age 14 years, ergo makes them likely to get cancers and other diseases widely known? Plus I assume it means HIV-infected die at least 14 years early. HIV-infected premature aging occurs even when treated with PrEP.
To look up more info, check FR keywords HIVacceleratedAging and hivaging.

[NetAddicted]

How hard is it to include all those graphics in your post?