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No, that's not the reason, given that PrEP exists. The actual reason is that Truvada, like other healthcare, can be hard to get in the American system.
Have we considered telling people to "just stay home" and to "not have sex"? Maybe that's the trick.
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Instead of downvotes, I'm curious what evidence there is on either side of this claim.
The claim logically holds together. There is even evidence on its side. But one reason for the downvotes may be that it might be too narrow-minded. For one thing, it completely neglects to consider the relative difficulty of treating symptoms versus being fully curative. Secondly, it half undermines itself by lumping vaccines into the same bucket as symptomatic treatment. Clearly the economic incentives for vaccine,…
> In 2018, for instance, there were approximately 36,400 newly infected patients living with HIV in the U.S. This number seems insane to me in the USA . Why is a well known deadly disease, with well understood transmission vectors, still spreading so prominently here?
Regan refused to even acknowledge the disease until he couldn't get away. This put the US on a deficit addressing AIDS that continues to this day.
American Republicanism kills people.
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Because people really, really like having risky and unsafe sex?
No, that's not the reason, given that PrEP exists. The actual reason is that Truvada, like other healthcare, can be hard to get in the American system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_HIV/AIDS_...
> In 2018, for instance, there were approximately 36,400 newly infected patients living with HIV in the U.S. It's 2021, why are we only seeing 3 year old HIV infection numbers? How come I can see coronavirus infection numbers updated pretty much hourly but reporting on HIV infection rates in this country is lagging 3 years?
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK217902/ https://fee.org/articles/curing-diseases-is-sustainable-gove... https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4351 https://theconversation.com/amp/how-pharmaceutical-companies... https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/02/09/lewis-the-need-for... https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/revolutionandrevelation/7... https://pnhp.org/news/eliminate-the-profit-motive-in-health-...
Many of these seem to support GP's comment.
On a website where products as a service are discussed regularly i'm confused as to how the parallels between that and profit driven 'healthcare as a service' are ignored or looked at with hostility.
> In 2018, for instance, there were approximately 36,400 newly infected patients living with HIV in the U.S. This number seems insane to me in the USA . Why is a well known deadly disease, with well understood transmission vectors, still spreading so prominently here?
> In 2018, for instance, there were approximately 36,400 newly infected patients living with HIV in the U.S. It's 2021, why are we only seeing 3 year old HIV infection numbers? How come I can see coronavirus infection numbers updated pretty much hourly but reporting on HIV infection rates in this country is lagging 3 years?
COVID takes a few days to show symptoms and get diagnosed. HIV takes a lot longer. https://www.onlineathens.com/news/2017-11-28/cdc-lag-time-be... > In their monthly Vital Signs report out Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the median time between infection and diagnosis with HIV was three years in 2014, about seven months shorter than in 2011. If you got HIV in 2020, chances are yo…
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No, that's not the reason, given that PrEP exists. The actual reason is that Truvada, like other healthcare, can be hard to get in the American system.
The incidence rate of HIV infection is the same in the US as it is in France, Span, or Italy though higher than the Scandinavian countries. I couldn't easily find data for the current rate of new infections, but its not immediately obvious to me that access to health care is the major driving factor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_HIV/AIDS_...