Starting this month, most people with private insurance will no longer have to decide whether they can afford to protect themselves against HIV. Most health plans must begin to cover the drugs then without charging consumers anything out-of-pocket.
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Michael Weinstein, the president of the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation is not necessarily who you’d expect to be standing up against Truvada – the medication created to prevent H.I.V. Truvada is used as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. Weinsteing has called it “a public health disaster in the making.” Starting this week, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation […]
In order to slow the spread of HIV, certain people who do not have the virus but are at risk should take medication to prevent becoming infected. That’s the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and just recently, the World Health Organization. The preventive treatment includes a drug called Truvada, and it […]