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DoH not advertising emergency HIV treatment enough
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4733462.stm
this is a very effective treatment if you know for certain you were exposed to HIV in the past 2 days, and has a very high chance of stopping you ever getting HIV yet it isn't advertised
this is far worse than the breast cancer drug thing as its a treatment available but people have to lie to get it, it seems
this is a very effective treatment if you know for certain you were exposed to HIV in the past 2 days, and has a very high chance of stopping you ever getting HIV yet it isn't advertised
this is far worse than the breast cancer drug thing as its a treatment available but people have to lie to get it, it seems
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I guess the fear is that people will be less careful if they know they have this 'safety net'. But is that really the case?
exactly, theres no situation in which someone would do this cause they're too lazy to use condoms simply because this 'treatment' is 8 weeks of heavy retrovirals which are extremely on the body by themselves as it disables dna encoding and cell repair mechanisms
the only situation it would be used i can conceive of is 2 people in a relationship where one has HIV and both are aware of this fact and a condom breaks or something
it's not light, it's effectively an emergency treatment, the same thing hospital staff get if they get squirted by arterial blood in the eye or something
exactly the point of the thread
theres no guidelines as such on giving it but its normally given to people who get needle pricks etc
I read last year in GT that they are introducing trials of PEPs for gay men in Brighton and London at a selection of sexual health clinics. In the article it said that it was only going to be given to the passive partner and only when precaution had been used but failed for example a condom splitting.