Quote:
Originally Posted by Taf
|
Its per month not per week
and is conciderably cheaper then the cost of a lifetime of treatment, especally as that £400 will drop to £15-£40 per month in 2020 when gled's patent expires (In south Africa where the patent has already expired it costs £12 per month, and can be privatly imported into the UK today for £40 a month). So much so that many (though not all) US health insurance policys provide PrEP for free or co-pay and these are businesses designed to make profit.
Its not just to allow unprotected sex (though im sure for many that is a big part) It protects against splitting condoms, heat of the moment "accidents". drink/drug related "accidents" plus the times when the top claims to have put on a condom and dosnt (or removes it just before - and yes this dose happen). Then theres also the extra protection/reassurance it offers when 1 partner is posative and the other isnt.
There are currently ways to get PrEP on the NHS costing them conciderably more (closer to £1000pm) called clinic hopping where once a month you goto a different sexual health clinic claiming to have had a accident and requesting PEP (Post-exposure ruther then (PrEP) Pre-exposure) throwing away one of the expensive drugs and just using the travada.
For balance im on PrEP which i finance myself importing generic Tenvir-EM (the active ingreadents in travada) for £40pm and i DO use condoms when having sex.