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And anti vaxxers will make some bullshit claim, making idiots believe it, and it'll only halfway eliminate HIV.
Not just them, but the religious fuckers who want everyone to suffer "consequences" for the sin of sex. Same ones that freak out about HPV vaccine.
I know there is a lot of overlap. But it isn't total.
At least this way you can save most of the smart ones.
Religious people often have smart kids. They need protection.
You know what, if you have HIV and throw your lot in with them then you've only got yourself to blame. If they had their way they'd throw you down a well for having it.
Problem is "that lot" is running the HHS (including the CDC) so people that want medicine in the US may not have access, even if they can afford it (which is becoming more unlikely than before).
Americans will find some way to blame the democrats for it tho, so the few people that actually vote will just vote in "that lot" again.
generic versions of a groundbreaking injectable drug to prevent HIV
The two organisations have entered into separate agreements with Indian pharmaceutical companies to produce cheaper generic versions of lenacapavir – a twice-yearly injection shown to reduce the risk of HIV transmission by more than 99.9 percent – for [more than 100] low- and middle-income countries.
Marketed under the brand name Yeztugo by California-based Gilead Sciences, lenacapavir currently costs around $28,000 a year in the United States.
Fuck...
Why can't we have nice things?
Sounds like a good thing therefore the brainworm in charge of health here in the states will surely get it banned. Or at least made to cost several thousand percent more than it costs to make.
Thank goodness the west coast states have created their own health consortium and a bunch of east coast states have followed suit. I live in one of those east coast states, and just got a covid booster no questions asked. It is also covered 100% by my insurance.
$40 a year somewhere else? That'll be $40K a year in america.
Not quite brainworm's fault we are getting extorted for drugs.
Oh no! Quick! Cut their Funding!
-The USA!
No no, keep their funding but make a Pharmaceutical company around it and only release pills with enough potency to treat instead of cure
"Hey Jimmy, you weren't at work yesterday"
"oh, my AIDS was acting up but I took some Rubitussin, I'm fine now."
40 dollars in low income countries. 28,000 dollars in the united states. The drug is made in the united states.
WTF.
speaking as a indian - the reason that this is possible because we kinda ignore medical patents and formulations. (using kinda because i do not know the exact wording in law and the cooldown period).
It should also tell you about the cost of ingredients and manufacturing vs the costs you pay for "rnd for big companies" (who often build upon work done by universities which often are run by public fundiing)
Those companies spend more on advertising than RND
Pharmaceutical companies used to do basic research until the 90s. At this point, they are just banks who buy biotechs spun out from NIH research.
Now that NIH is gone, the industry will atrophy within a decade. There will be no new drugs.
Makes you wonder if Trump has a point.
But thanks to RFK and Trump, there will be no more drugs like this in the future. Gilead did the trials, but 95% of the effort behind this was NIH funded. We can't even guess how many game changing drugs have been cut in 2025.
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"We can end HIV":
...as long as we can convince everyone to take it. So, yeah. Good luck with that.
You can convince people of everything, if it depends on you having more sex or not.
No pills. Have sex. Die. No sex.
Yes pills. Have sex. Live. More sex.
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You don't need to convince everyone, just enough people.
Were already seeing really good progress with pills and condoms, so an option which doesn't need to be taken on a strict daily schedule will be a huge boon.
Generic versions of a groundbreaking injectable HIV-prevention drug should be available for $40 a year in more than 100 countries from 2027, Unitaid and the Gates Foundation said Wednesday.
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Marketed under the brand name Yeztugo by California-based Gilead Sciences, lenacapavir currently costs around $28,000 a year in the United States.
FUCK GILEAD
clearly they should have tried a smaller time frame to get a more reasonable price
"Preventative drug"? Is this what we're calling vaccines now?
There are No vaccines for HIV. This is a drug that if taken continually will prevent the virus from taking hold.
It is an interesting what makes the distinction.
The core principle of vaccination is training the immune system with a substance so that a disease can be defeated later on.
Nothing says that a vaccine needs to be an injection. There are injection vaccines that need multiple doses before the immune system reaches a certain level.
So why would a pill that trains your immune system not be a vaccine?
I guess a pill could be a vaccine, but this drug is neither a vaccine nor a pill, so I have no clue why youre bringing this up.
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vaccine is a scientific term, meaning a weaker (or, rather, as weak as scientifically possible) version of the same virus / bacteria, so that immune system could learn to fight it without dying in the process.
This is not a vaccine, as has an active substance, that chemically interacts either with our body, HIV's shell, or both
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The Gates Foundation also announced Wednesday that it had entered into a similar partnership with Indian pharmaceutical company Hetero.
That's for bigots to not being ashamed of taking pills against sexually transmited diseases? See, Hetero is in it's very name, so it's fine!
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Pastors: NO! How will I condemn the gays now?!
Capitalism: That's great but what's the profit margin?
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