Calif. drugmaker's HIV prevention pill draws concern

[The Straight Story]

Calif. drugmaker's HIV prevention pill draws concern

Foster City drugmaker Gilead recently updated its application with the federal Food and Drug Administration for approval to market its HIV treatment medication Truvada as a HIV prevention pill.

If the FDA approves Truvada for preventive use, it "would be the first agent indicated for uninfected individuals to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV through sex," according to a company statement at the time of the filing last month.

Gilead's application, however, has sparked debate among public health advocates who argue that the wide availability of the drug would discourage safe sex and would, in fact, increase the incidence of HIV.

http://www.news10.net/news/article/176077/2/Calif-drugmakers-HIV-prevention-pill-draws-concern

[TheWraith]

1. Yeah, that's pretty stupid right there.

If you're going to be having sex with someone who is HIV positive, or even MIGHT be HIV positive, you use a condom. There is no fucking logic to ANYTHING else.

[originalpckelly]

3. Of course, but sometimes people get drunk.

Sometimes the condoms break.

And you don't want to take the risk.

[Lawlbringer]

2. Herpes and Gonorrhea skyrocket

while HIV infections decline. If this is for real and dummies decide to "raw dog" every encounter, I'm really just not going to want to live on this planet anymore.

[originalpckelly]

4. I think we should stop treating these diseases too.

That way people will be reluctant to have sex and we won't have to worry about them.

Yeah, that makes sense.

[3waygeek]

5. Plus ça change...

a hundred years ago, when salvarsan was introduced to treat syphillis, religious authorities made the same arguments.