NHS Scotland to fund PrEP as prophylaxis

NHS Scotland to fund PrEP as prophylaxis

‘Scotland will become the first place in the UK to routinely offer Prep to eligible patients. … [Scottish Medicine Consortium]’s decision relates to its use on a preventative basis by people who do not have the virus.’ BBC News. Had the SMC...
NHS Scotland to fund PrEP as prophylaxis

Case of HIV ‘infection’ following PrEP

In a new article in The New England Journal of Medicine, a case has been described of a man acquiring HIV-positivity after administration of PrEP with evidence negating infection prior to medication. If studied deeply this will surely exonerate the NHS’s...
NHS Scotland to fund PrEP as prophylaxis

HIV linked with deprivation

Reuters reports on a new study which connects acquisition of a HIV-positive status with societal issues. Unfortunately, the virus hypothesis is not divorced. In unrelated news, a video has recently appeared online in which Dr Peter Gotzsche of the Nordic Cochrane...