Health : A New Tool To Prevent HIV Infection!
People who want to find out where to get drugs that will prevent them from getting infected with HIV have a new tool.
Researchers from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University will unveil a new website, preplocator.org, that will allow users to locate a medical provider or clinic that can prescribe Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection. If taken daily, PrEP helps prevent the transmission of HIV. The website will be introduced at the 20th Annual US Conference on AIDS taking place in Hollywood, FL, Today, September 15th.
“PrEP has the potential to substantially reduce the number of new HIV infections in the United States but only if people know how and where to get it,” says Aaron Siegler, PhD, research assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. “Importantly, the tool features a search function that allows users to search for PrEP providers who would prescribe to individuals without insurance.”
The CDC has estimated that more than one million people in the United States are eligible for PrEP.
The site is available both as a website and a widget that can be used on other websites. It connects individuals to both public and private PrEP providers through its unique, searchable location-based database. Siegler, who is also the principal investigator of the project, and his team, part of PRISM Health at Emory, gathered data on more than 1200 healthcare clinics and providers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico who will prescribe PrEP. To do so, they partnered with local and state health departments, HIV medical professional organizations and community-based organizations who provided them with the initial data, which they have since verified and updated.
The preplocator.org database will be crowdsourced, which allows users to suggest new providers or update information on providers currently available in the database.
The philanthropic arm of M·A·C Cosmetics, the M·A·C AIDS Fund, provided funding for the development of the locator to address the nationwide gap in PrEP adoption.
“PrEP saves lives, period,” says Nancy Mahon, global executive director of the M·A·C AIDS Fund. “While leaders in the fight against HIV/AIDS recommend that people at risk of infection use PrEP, it’s not catching on as quickly as we would like, so we need to meet them where they are with information and services that make PrEP an obvious and easy decision.”
According to Siegler, the next steps of the project include outreach to health departments, community organizations, and businesses such as dating sites and apps to continue to build awareness of its availability.
Launch partners currently hosting the PrEP Locator database include: pleaseprepme.org, Greater Than AIDS, and AIDSVu.org. For more info, visit preplocator.org
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About the M·A·C AIDS Fund
The M·A·C AIDS Fund, the philanthropic arm of M·A·C Cosmetics, has raised more than $425 million since its inception in 1994, exclusively through the sale of M·A·C VIVA GLAM lipstick and lipgloss. The Fund is the heart and soul of M·A·C Cosmetics, encompassing diversity while celebrating life and the outspoken attitude of the company. Partnering with bold, visionary, and brave organizations to confront the epidemic in communities where people are at highest risk around the world, the M·A·C AIDS Fund is ending AIDS, one lipstick at a time.
About Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health
The Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) is part of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The school houses six academic departments, 20 multidisciplinary centers – including an NIH-supported Center for AIDS Research – and over 160 full-time doctoral-level faculty members.
Key collaborators of preplocator.org include PleasePrEPMe, a state-wide PrEP provider locator for California, and Greater Than AIDS represented by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a leading public information response to the US domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic.
I can tell you why PrEP isn’t “catching on as quickly as we would like”…the high cost. At $13,000 per year, even my insurance-covered costs are several hundred dollars per month.
yeah, but nothing is free. But I think that few hundreds to protect yourself from getting HIV is not bad, if you can afford it and have a very active sex life. In Canada, the max we pay is 83$, government pays the rest. But I have sex like once a month, with condom, so for me, it’s not worth it.
That’s why I don’t believe even half of these guys who say they’re on it.
You can’t believe half of what gay men say about anything anyway, so you’re definitely smart in that regard.
The cost is so high that most insurance companies won’t cover it! That is exactly the problem.
So how can we find out whether a partner is or isn’t on it?
you can ask him…#communication is key!
I could show you my pills blue pills with the exact name on them that proves I’m on them. And honestly i do prefer fucking raw, I’ve been on them for almost 2 years and my status is still HIV negative and I have fucked 2 dudes that are poz, so the pills have proven they WORK, I’m proof. But they are Expensive as hell.
You can’t. I’d say around half of them lie about their status anyway. More that once (a LOT more) I’ve gone into their bathroom to “wash up a little” if I wound up at their place and found their Truvada prescription sitting there right on the sink AFTER they’ve told me that they’re neg…and this was BEFORE the PReP scam.
Condoms are way less expensive
let me tell you it is free in the UK!
The result: ALL STDs are now rocketing to alarming levels, so much so that gay sex is making headlines. Hepatitis C, which kills millions more than HIV, and in more agonising pain, is scarily on the rise to oblivion. Even Syphilis, which is supposed to be a disease of the last century is now 1:7 ratio…
Now, personally, I feel PREP is just an excuse to fuck BB: the new gay craze, cos it seems the new generations have no understanding of the word consequences.
Cheap thrills and a load of apps just makes the new generation careless and antisocial. it is pure and simply: sex, well because “I can!”
But the worse part for me is all those who witnessed the disaster of ’85 and seen many close friends dying one after one, and still are happy to spread all that they can.
We have a TV show on this side of the world called “sex-clinic”, and it is just appalling, that most of patients are gay and full of diseases. I even saw a guy i used to work with (cheers for that! true story), and he is positive, and has Hepatitis C, and went to the clinic cos he caught gonorrhoea from unprotected sex in the toilets of some club…
I am speechless… and all you want is PREP…. what about condoms???!!! it is 97% safe… PREP is only 75%… Read the medical literature… I have! Plus, I am doctor now since thursday.. and my “training” at the sex clinic has just put me off having sex with strangers, especially unprotected, and even more so if they are on PREP.
You’re quite right. It’s the same here in the US, and some misguided local governments, as is Los Angeles county, are buying the stuff thinking that it will somehow slow the rising infections rates. That most likely will level them off, still at a higher rate, but infection rates of HCV (hard to track unless guys get tested), and, especially, HPV and syphilis will skyrocket here, as well. And yes, “raw” is the new Millennial craze. In LA county, we’re seeing new HIV infections as young as 14 years old.
OMG!
Thank you for this new bit of info.
I did not expect it to be that bad in LA (where I am planning to move in the coming years). And HIV at 14? what kind of education kids get nowadays? Do parents CARE? I am so behind shocked…
Sometimes, I feel i am missing out by sticking to my guns and principles, and not fuck around and go crazy just for the sake of an orgasm… but the way the world is going – dick first -, i just don’t know what the new generations will be like… i think we are too many on this planet, so may be carelessness is the answer…. 40 millions people that died from HIV, and I bet it is going to take half the time to double…
This is not a permanent fix; once a strain of HIV mutates beyond the capability of Truvada to prevent its entry into a T cell, the drug will be useless.
Another shill job for Gliead’s halfassed “protection” scam for their obsolete ARV drug, Truvada. Truvada PReP is a dangerous ripoff; used alone without a rubber, it’s only 51% effective in preventing spread of HIV from an infected partner (using standard protocol stats, and per Gilead’s own FDA Phase III trial data filed with the FDA) and the costs are astronomical, especially for an ARV “prophylactic” that only works 51% of the time….and you KNOW DAMNED WELL, those bitches out there are NOT using rubbers. Suckerrrrrrs….. I have a FAR BETTER tool to eliminate infection by HIV…it’s called TESTING YOURSELF AND YOUR PARTNER. It’s worked for me since 1982, and yes, I have my “HIV neg” card with the 9/13 date on it. Choose careful and sane tops? NEVER a problem with HIV, or HCV, or any of the usualy gay diseases. Sorry, ain’t buyin’ it, EXCEPT that my tax dollars ARE buying it for fools who don’t care about the costs…THAT pisses me OFF.
What’s with these guys who are asking you for some money in exchange of sex and state in their profiles that they are “on PreP”???
I call them “Truvada hos”. LOL!
very funny #not
I call them smart people 🙂
The government should provide it to anyone who wants it at ALL public health centers – totally free of charge, and without the need for a prescription or a million questions. That’s the only way to make it work. There are a few programs out there in certain areas to help with the costs but most are only in big cities and most all assume you have insurance that pays at least half. For those living in areas without these programs and/or without fancy (or any) insurance that basically means they are out of luck.
Wishful thinking. AT BEST, Truvada PReP will cause new infection rates to level off at a higher level, but the collateral damage is that HCV, HPV, syphilis and bacteria-resistant gonnorhea infection and treatment rates will skyrocket. Gay men, especially the Millennials, have a dismal record on 1.) telling the truth to medical professionals or their partners, and 2.) don’t understand the basic idea of responslbility.
The gay male community has become a pool of lying, ignorant whores. Now a days it seems like time I ask someone if they play safe/use condoms, instead of answering the question they immediately say “on Prep and neg here.” In other words, they’re ok with having unsafe sex. Apparently the rest of the other 10 STIs have been eradicated since Prep came around. Then there’s those barebacking whores who think that just because I play safe, it’s their job to call me a condom queen and rant about how society has taught me not to be a real man. It’s become the perfect excuse to take risks and spread diseases.
Agree 100%. I’ve pretty much left the “gay community,” as it has degenerated form a social movement into a cadre of drug-addicted hedonistic cock whores. Screw it, I’m too old anyway (ageism, another new gay Millennial trait that goes hand in hand with HIV infection) and they can no longer count on my financial and political support…they don’t deserve it.
I have never heard there was a name for people (like us) who use condoms. It will never occur to me to have sex without it… never in a million year. even in a relationship, there is no more trust, as sex is just too widely available, with all the apps and website offering cheap thrills. how can an app pretend for you to have terrific sex, for whoever you’re meeting can well be probably fucked behind reason and can’t even get it up…
you know what be a condom queen and be proud. I know i am… cos hopefully i would die of a load less shameful reason.