Pharma manufacturer Gilead making available at cost (2 million doses in most needed countries) while generics are developed and can later be distributed. Decent play from a Pharma company.
It’s so nice to have these vaccines to protect us and allow us to live a fuller life…. I wonder what republicans are gonna do about it?… or is Kennedy gonna stop it from hitting shelves?
Just want to be clear to anyone reading that this is not an HIV vaccine, it’s a long-lasting antiviral medication. Similar therapies have been approved since 2012, and an injection that lasts for two months was approved in 2021.
The main benefit of a once-every-six-month injection is for people at high risk with very limited access to healthcare. PrEP is great but this is a fairly minor improvement to existing therapies.
I’ve seen the word vaccine appear at least 5 times in this thread. It’s weird that people are going there.
To be fair to those calling it a vaccine, it is a preventative medication administered by injection twice a year. For a layperson, that sounds like a vaccine.
This would be a whole lot more uplifting without the news about getting rid of the woke preventative medicine panel.
incredible news. i am saddened for everyone lost during the last 44 years.
Wow! AIDS was a death sentence when I was young, no chance of survival.
It still is bad. This is a prevention vaccine not a cure vaccine.
Uh, a vaccine is a preventative, not a cure. That idea is contained in the definition of “vaccine”.
Sometimes “passive vaccine” is used to describe an injection of antibodies to directly fight an ongoing disease.
its been survival with proper treatment, no longer getting AIDS. of course there are people that still engage in risky behavior, and 1 person made news with untreated HIV a tapeworm gave him cancer, the tapeworm got cancer and gave the guy with hiv tapeworm cancer, which is unheard of.
Go look up side effects of medications. Even if controlled, your kidneys and liver are in for a bad time.
you could just link to the side effects?
That depends on the medication in question.
oh so you’re just… blanket stating that medications are bad for your kidneys and liver?
Or, perhaps, I take these and am repeating what my doctor says? Why are you being hostile? Yes these save lives but they are not perfect. I experienced such severe abdominal swelling that it caused me a hernia that required surgery. You read that correctly: HIV medication cause me a hernia severe enough to require surgery. Now is there some other part of my life that I should expose to you so that you can judge me across the internet?
