When is inflammation good? When should you treat inflammation, when should you let it be ( Read more... )

https://www.sfaf.org/collections/beta/we-asked-clinicians-would-you-prescribe-doxycycline-to-someone-for-sti-prevention/Read more... )

Perhaps I'll keep today's thoughts about Wuhan to myself. They aren't hopeful. But I can't do anything about it. Exponential spread continues. We still don't know enough ( Read more... )

https://marksking.com/my-fabulous-disease/gilead-duped-me-into-being-their-mouthpiece-heres-how/

This is the story of the insidious influence of Big Pharma on our HIV/AIDS leadership and policy-making, and how an ( Read more... )

In 2018, Gilead provided almost $400 million in cash donations to reduce health
disparities, eliminate the barriers to healthcare encountered by underserved populations,
advance education among healthcare professionals and support the local communities
in which we operate.How many of the LGBT advocacy organizations promoting Truvada are receiving ( Read more... )

Facebook users have been bombarded with misleading ads about medication meant to prevent the transmission of HIV, according to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates, who say the tech giant’s refusal to remove the content has created a public-health crisis ( Read more... )

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/podcasts/the-daily/hiv-aids-truvada-prep.html

After I spoke with my doctor about Prep and she said to think about it ... although I'd already been thinking about it, as all of you know ... I read the entire product insert for Truvada. Truvada is the brand name for the drug we call Prep for short (Prep stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis, which is a fancy way of saying "preventive ( Read more... )

Now that I've decided to require casual sex partners to use condoms even if I go on Prep, I'm reading more about it to decide whether I should start taking it now ( Read more... )

Some of the Bareback-on-Prep guys are upset that others are judging their behavior -- "don't moralize" they complain. "Everybody gets to choose his own level of protection" they say. OK, but it works both ways ( Read more... )