Healthy Gay Men Should Be Given Hiv Treatment To Prevent Infection.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2967112/Healthy-gay-men-given-HIV-treatment-PREVENT-infection-game-changing-trial-suggests.html

Much as been suggested regarding obese people and smoker's restricted treatment on the NHS, all under the name of "lifestyle rationing", if these two lifestyles are under scrutiny, why should NHS money be spent on gay men's lifestyle?

[Peter Pedant]

well you will be waiting a long time...
I am not sure if the figures for the NHS exist

[jno]

PP may be right about putting it in the tap water... that's what we do with fluoride, after all.

[DTCwordfan]

Heterosexual folk can be exposed too, let's not forget that little point.......and , Jeez, there's enough STDs out there.

[Zacs-Master]

Then the OPs question is unanswerable. De ja vu anyone?

[Prudie]

Even I can see that surely smoking (which I do) is a lifestyle choice. Being gay is not a lifestyle choice.

[Zacs-Master]

Choosing whether to have penetrative sex is tho.

[Prudie]

I'm not sure how to answer that. Yes I suppose the method is a choice but it's pretty harsh to deny a group of a very basic human pleasure.

[-Talbot-]

Peter Pedant
EMTRICITABINE; is two antiretroviral medicines in one tablet. It is used with other medicines to treat HIV and with safe sex practices to prevent HIV in high risk persons.

not a vaccine nor an inoculation

in excess of a thousand bucks a month


I struggle with PP's posts...is this drugs an on going financial burden on the NHS to the tune of 'a thousand bucks a month'?

(When and if it gets off the ground)

[Zacs-Master]

Prudie, they know the risks. The 'choice' is up to them.

[Zacs-Master]

Talbot - you're not the only one who struggles with pp's posts. I sure he's trying to make a valid point but it gets lost in the strange dilliberate miss-spellings and lack of detail.