We have this week yet another story of PrEP failure. As always the gay ill health sector are putting on a brave face and spinning that, in reality, it’s good news and that thousands of gay men are being “protected” from HIV by taking PrEP. As always the message is they don’t care if you… Read More »
In 1983 some of us watched a Horizon programme on BBC2. Called “Killer In the Village“, it was about a mysterious illness that was killing gay men in New York and San Francisco. To some of us in the UK it was apparent immediately that, whatever this was, it was unlikely to stay only in… Read More »
It’s important to remember that HIV is an ever mutating virus, it doesn’t stand still. The gay (ill)health organisations would have you believe PrEP is like the female contraceptive pill but for gay men against HIV. This is too simplistic and misleading. Consider it more like antibiotics against other STIs, they eventually fail as the… Read More »
https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/european-parliament-calls-more-people-get-prep/ PrEP at the moment seems to prevent HIV infection. These are the same meds that people who are HIV positive take to prevent themselves from developing AIDS and dying. The wider question (which as usual simplistic promotional articles like this one in Gay Star News never ask) is: what other effects will PrEP have… Read More »