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

New marketing target for PrEP: African-American women

According to the CDC, African American women make up 62 percent of women diagnosed with HIV in the U.S. White women account for 18 percent, with Latinas at 14 percent. McCray says the CDC is planning in the upcoming months to produce campaigns targeted at Black women...
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...