Can one pill a day prevent you from having HIV?
Daily Xtra releases a series of powerful videos about pre-exposure phrophylaxis which is commonly known as PrEP. It works like a birth control pill. You take it once a day and according to researchers, it protects you from HIV even if you’re having bareback sex. But there are also many health experts who are opposed to it.
Is this the magic pill that we’ve been waiting for?
Among the interviewee was porn star Michael Lucas who has appeared in bareback videos and been an advocate of PrEP. He says now he doesn’t have to worry about HIV. Other HIV / AIDS experts also weighed in on the topic.
Click on the thumbnail below to the video and tell us what you think. You can also leave your comment on Daily Xtra’s Facebook page.
If this were true, it would be all over the mainstream media.
It’s meant to be used IN COMBINATION WITH SAFER SEX PRACTICES, and does not eliminate the risk of infection… just reduces it.
“In 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of the drug Truvada® as PrEP to be taken once daily and used in combination with safer sex practices to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV infection in adults who do not have HIV but are at high risk of becoming infected.”
Source:
http://aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/prevention/reduce-your-risk/pre-exposure-prophylaxis/
Actually, it wouldn’t be all over. Call me a conspiracy theorist, whatever. Bottom line: Many, many still view HIV/AIDS as a fag disease. And feel we “deserve it.” HIV/AIDS is population control, sad to say. Just like cancer and many other diseases. Governments feel, you get sick, oh well. No loss. Just another person that’s going to die eventually anyway…so if it happens that much faster, oh well.
When’s the last time anyone big in Hollywood died of HIV/AIDS? Been awhile, huh? Of course it has been. Listen, to think money and status won’t buy you cures or treatments is foolish. Sure, a few celebs pass from this or that now and then…can’t make it look too fake, people will catch on. Let’s take gay and bi out of the equation. Now, hundreds of big names, promiscuity, one night stands, affairs…where’s the infections? Add back the gay and bi into the mix…where’s the infections? It’s just to quaint ain’t it? You mean to tell me none of them have unprotected sex?
Sad to say, cures exist…if you can afford them. Whether it’s a pill, a shot, some plant grown in a rain forrest, whatever. The truth is, status is everything. And…for fun, pornstars, no matter what type…all this barebacking, by now shouldn’t there be more than a flare up now and then? There are just far too many variables. But you have yo be willing to think outside the box…you have to be willing to see the bigger picture. There are so many, many, MANY lies told all the time. I always say, believe half of of what you read and less of what you hear.
This thread…if heavily commented on…will either have tons of guys agreeing or I’ll become a huge outcast. Either way…I can handle what comes.
So long as the phrases “used in combination with” and “to reduce” are employed with this or any drug, it’s NOT the pill we’ve been waiting for, regardless of Mr. Lucas’s misplaced and misguided optimism. I certainly hope, for his own health and safety, that he doesn’t believe this rubbish.
And I agree with pmaul — if even half of this were true, some involved chemist would be getting the Nobel Prize.
I don’t believe that PrEP is rubbish, but no one is mentioning the side effects of such medications, e.g., gas pains, diarrhea, lipodystrophy,
higher cholesterol, possible liver and/or kidney damage, skin problems, etc. The cure is still almost as bad as the disease, and that goes for prophylactic medicating.
I am not at all a fan of Michael Lucas – I find him arrogant.
I agree with sicilianmikey,in fact there is no profit in curing a disease, there is profit on the selling the “treatment” drugs.
First I have heard about it. You would think health care workers would be telling people about it.