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PrEP is one of the great miracles in the history of medicine and moving it to a twice a year shot will make it so much easier for people to use it's hard to articulate just how amazing it is that we moved HIV from a guaranteed death sentence to something people no longer have to experience at all
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Owen
@oweniverson.bsky.social
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These are the drugs that the US must make free to all. In order to do this, I encourage folks to check out Modern Monetary Theory (which actually started in the 70s) to understand how the Govt can pay for anything Congress agrees to. We can have SO much more than we currently do!
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Katie Tightpussy
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TWICE A YEAR FOR 100% PREVENTION? HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT'S CRAZY
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dillo (the yakubian mamba)
@dillo.media
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honestly surprised some dork didn't try to say "umm actually it's not a miracle it's science" lol
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Three👁️ Eyed👁️ Devil👁️
@anarcish.bsky.social
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My great uncle got HIV really early into the crisis and while I wasn’t around yet I’ve heard stories about how quickly and irreversibly he declined without any treatment. This was an apocalyptic disease just a single lifetime ago, it might as well have been the black plague to some communities.
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Jim Teeth
@drjamesjteeth.bsky.social
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It would be better if there was actual anonymity to the process. Data collection in healthcare is quite frankly off the hook. But I agree. Truly a miracle of science.
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Catherine RW
@polyhymnia.bsky.social
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Fantastic news!
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Exkhaniber
@exkhaniber.bsky.social
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Sounds too good to be true. @sailorrooscout.bsky.social , do you have any imput or insight into this?
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Ammonium Azide
@nh4n3.bsky.social
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And we're getting pretty close to a cure, too
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen
@wikisteff.bsky.social
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I remember when triple antiviral therapy moved it from a death sentence to a chronic care disease and **that** was a miracle of science. This is health care magic.
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Andrew S.
@shoutingboy.bsky.social
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I’m old enough to remember Magic Johnson announcing he had HIV and back then, we never heard someone say that until they were already sick—we all assumed he’d be gone in a year. What I’m saying is, yay science.
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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Immunity from immunodeficiency is the next level.
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Sean Kozma
@seankozma.bsky.social
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Agreed. Though we let an almost an entire generation of gay men die before we decided to try to do something about it, which is a fucking crime against humanity.
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♿Smollestbunny/hiding from plagues (abandon labour party NZ)
@smollestbunny2.bsky.social
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Wow that's amazing
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Ember
@emberenby.bsky.social
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This is huge. A twice yearly shot vs a daily pill has a much higher chance of being maintained by patients (no blame-crazy schedules, neurodivergent, & life in general abound). Especially when there are so many pills where if you miss a dose it can really mess you up. That is a huge barrier to entry
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Justin Stanley
@justintstanley.bsky.social
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This is where Pratchett gets it right. People are impressed with tricks and shrug at real magic.
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Pedro D
@pierrenodoyuna.bsky.social
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A guy I played baseball with died from AIDS, and it was not that long ago. Yet you hear/read all those science-doubter anti-vaccine a-holes every friggin' day
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Sean Eric Fagan
@kithrup.bsky.social
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Soothly, we live in mighty fucking years.
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blossom 🌸
@theblossombratt.bsky.social
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oh hell yeah. happy to check my phone and see something so positive for once
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GK
@ghostkumo.bsky.social
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I wish I could be happier, but seeing the name Gilead feels like a bit of a monkey's paw situation :/ Still better that it exists at the least
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@tidinzeo.bsky.social
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Sure. But how much will it cost for people that don’t live in places with sensible, socialised medical systems?
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Mrs Schwarzski
@mrsschwarzski.bsky.social
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Legit talking to my kids about all of these when they come of an age (eldest is 11 snd runs away from his dad and I kissing so not yet!) but I really think anyone sexually active should be on these preventatives.
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Carl - Property of Bundas the Puli
@carls-puli.bsky.social
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When good people do good work we can achieve anything.
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Birch 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@birchduck.bsky.social
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It's staggering how different kid's sex Ed was with regards to which STIs are covered most. I got all AIDS all the time. She got more ... syphilis and gonorrhea iirc (her class was terrible, to be clear, and needed a lot of supplemental info, but those are the big ones in the county)
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James Roe
@origammi.bsky.social
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I was watching a commercial for some branded formulation like PrEP and thinking "why isn't this announced with trumpets and banners? Where are the annual parades for loved ones living and thriving, and loved ones lost too soon?"
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RAALLEN
@raallen86.bsky.social
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I’m incredibly suspect at a giant pharm company telling me something is 100% successful at preventing something, though. Like, I want to believe, but history tells me an abundance of caution.
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Greg Lastname
@orpach.bsky.social
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Anyone keeping a checklist of the transmissible diseases that need stomping out, along with the ones that have been already? It's be nice to check in on every couple of years to feel good about being human.
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Jen Ebbeler
@jenebbeler.bsky.social
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Yup. I’m old enough to remember when it was a horrific death sentence.
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈
@chimeracoder.bsky.social
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I'm happy this injection is successful, but unfortunately it's unlikely to address the biggest hurdles with getting PrEP to the people who need it the most. The main hurdles at this point are political, not pharmaceutical (or even logistical)
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That Anonymous Coward
@thatac.bsky.social
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And yet we still have idiots pushing back against it because they think "bad people"(tm) deserve to be punished. Imagine where we would be today if we told those people to shut up & did the work that helps people without fake moral prejudice.
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@processanalyzer.bsky.social
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What is the price?
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panda, the artful scientist
@artfulscientist.bsky.social
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and all of this has essentially happened within my lifetime??? (1984 is my birth year)
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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼
@kingofvagabonds.bsky.social
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I've been talking about the absolute necessity of governments moving towards universal PReP for at risk groups for years. This is going to make that so much fucking easier. We could actually eliminate horizontal transmission in our lifetime with like just the minimal amount of effort.
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Dr M
@ivalaine.bsky.social
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I am curious at behavioural changes and thus rates of other STDs though. It is incredible work from all the scientists behind this but i do worry about antibiotic use increases and where that could lead
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Jim Izer
@jizer.bsky.social
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This and the speed of the COVID-19 Vax are perhaps the greatest pharm accomplishments in my lifetime. All because they saved all that money not giving us pens anymore 😎
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Lucas
@phoenixfire.bsky.social
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The advancement of medical technology is one of those things that never ceases to make me proud of my fellow humanity. Like, the fact that we live in a world with no smallpox, (almost) no polio, and - hopefully soon - no HIV is just amazing.
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FatGuyOnABike🔒
@fgoaborg.bsky.social
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Graduated high school in 88. Lost the first of many friends 6 months after graduation. He found out he was positive and passed within 2 months. Those were such horrific times for my gay friends. The homophobia was deadly back then.
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