[compass_copium]

This is completely inaccurate. There is PrEP that requires dosing two times a year. You can also get PEP if you engage in a risky activity without PrEP.

[SietrixDev]

Yes, it exists, but how available is it really? If I recall correctly, the injections are also not very pleasant.

"Gilead sells LEN at very high prices (over $28,000 per person per year in the US), severely restricts its supply to certain countries, and refuses to sell it directly to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières"

Source: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/campaigns/acces...

[sroussey]

The shots are expensive, but the pills are free in the USA. They do have adverse kidney issues over prolonged use (more for some people than others).

[cguess]

And clearly only the people in the USA matter.

[whimsicalism]

Are you serious? I would bank money on PEP being practically free in sub-saharan Africa.

[cguess]

*PrEP

It... was, until Musk dismantled USAID and Congress defunded PEPFAR.

So many comments by people who have never stepped foot out the Global North making wild assumptions.

[whimsicalism]

I was explicitly referring to PEP. I'm not sure why you would make assumptions about where I have or haven't been when you have absolutely no information.

PEP remains largely free in SSA post-USAID/PEPFAR cuts.

[matharmin]

That PrEP is in some ways similar to a vaccine, and there is still a lot of value in getting a better vaccine (cheaper and/or lasting longer).