Some positive news for the week -
New HIV infections, as a percentage of people tested - gay/bi men - at 2 key central London clinics, has fallen by 40%. The prophylactic treatment that has been prescribed - PrEP - is behind some of the drop in infection rates. PrEP, as you may know from other past threads on it, is a treatment that HIV negative people take that can prevent HIV infection.
The clinics have seen this large drop in infection rates, though have similar numbers of people that have been tested in both years and their clients include those who take PrEP as well as those that don't. One clinic diagnosed 373 people in 2016, down from 626 in 2015, this is the clinic where some of its users have taken PrEP treatment.
Obviously as less people have been infected, a great thing for possibly hundreds of people, this also saves the NHS the treatment costs for HIV, potentially for the rest of someone's life. |
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As PrEP treatment is cutting HIV infection rates - and thus people whoew could unknowingly be infected and pass it on - does it make your thoughts any clearer on it being made available on the NHS, as it's vastly cheaper than life-long HIV treatment cost, that is required if people get infected? |
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