NO GLOVE NO LOVE and next up TRUVADA, the little daily blue pill in PrEP trials .. and did you know that that among the biggest stock holders in Truvada is Donald Rumsfeld? Make sure all your HIV- friends think through about putting a serious AIDS drug with all its known side effects into their bodies so they can have unsafe, "raw" sex. Make sure they know all the known, let alone, the unknown side effects on HIV+ bodies, let alone what long term effect will be by the use on HIV- bodies. That this need to take an expensive drug does NOT protect against any other STD except the possibility of HIV transmission. It will put billions of dollars of profit into the pockets of share holders .
Women who have sex with men for over 45 years had advocated for health reasons not just limited to that of pregnancy for men wear condoms."No glove No Love " ...and now people with AIDS and HIV+ activist and some public heath officials and some MDs are campaigning to undermine their message by promoting PrEP. The issue of heterosexual couples who want children who have rejected adoption where one partner is HIV+ or has AIDS and a partner who is HIV- is a serious question and needs to be addressed separately Same sex couples with mixed HIV conditions do not make babies in anal intercourse.No Glove No love. The current public campaign promoting PrEP by the State and City Health Departments to me verges on criminal misinformation because it promotes PrEP without any mention of the harmful side effects or cost to the individual or the public. And who is funding this campaign? We know that when the federal government withdrew funding for safe sex education from AIDS related service agencies PHARMA stepped in and replaced the funding by funding Prep education programs in those same agencies and saved jobs and, I suggest, put lives at risk. , And no matter how you feel about PrEP, please Make sure people know that so called HIV+ individuals who say their viral load is "undetectable" and want to have unprotected sex with you are living in a scientifically controversial world. Don't have anal or vaginal sex with out a condom
NO GLOVE NO LOVE remember the Tuskegee trials ...guess who is targeted this time?
ALERT: What side effects can Truvada cause?Truvada can cause serious, life-threatening side effects. :
1: These include lactic acidosis (
2: New or worsening kidney problems, including kidney failure.
3: Bone problems (bone pain, softening, or thinning [osteopenia]).
4: Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), a condition that sometimes occurs when the immune system begins to recover after treatment with an HIV medicine. As the immune system gets stronger, it may have an increased response to a previously hidden infection. Tell your health care provider if you start having new symptoms after starting your HIV medicine.
4: Changes in body fat (lipodystrophy).
Tell your health care provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away.These are not all the possible side effects of Truvada. To learn more about possible side effects of Truvada, read the drug label or package insert or talk to your health care provider or pharmacist.The AIDSinfo fact sheet on HIV Medicines and Side Effects also includes information that may apply to Truvada.You can report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 (1-800-332-1088) or online athttps://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/.
2: New or worsening kidney problems, including kidney failure.
3: Bone problems (bone pain, softening, or thinning [osteopenia]).
4: Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), a condition that sometimes occurs when the immune system begins to recover after treatment with an HIV medicine. As the immune system gets stronger, it may have an increased response to a previously hidden infection. Tell your health care provider if you start having new symptoms after starting your HIV medicine.
4: Changes in body fat (lipodystrophy).
Tell your health care provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away.These are not all the possible side effects of Truvada. To learn more about possible side effects of Truvada, read the drug label or package insert or talk to your health care provider or pharmacist.The AIDSinfo fact sheet on HIV Medicines and Side Effects also includes information that may apply to Truvada.You can report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 (1-800-332-1088) or online athttps://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/.
Or as was written in BlackgirlDangerous Blog
one side effects that you will not be told : (from blackgirldangerous blog)
Truvada, a pre-exposure prophylactic (PrEP) that prevents the transmission of HIV. Essentially, you take this pill every day to prevent contracting the virus and developing the highly-manageable chronic illness. .......have gotten a few of the facts wrong: . .....why Truvada is more effective than other, less costly and less extreme alternatives. .....makes the assumption that HIV/AIDS is somehow a gay issue, and it is not...... fails to discuss the systemic complications of treating gay identities as “high-risk” chronic conditions that require being indentured to the medical industrial complex. .....writes, “Truvada has virtually no side effects,” he is wrong. The Truvada website’s Patient Assistance Page identifies lactic acidosis as a potential side effect of taking the drug; this side effect is potentially life-threatening and serious even when it doesn’t result in death. Lactic acidosis is when your body tissue and blood becomes too acidic and has a lactate build up. In the past the FDA has withdrawn drugs (such as phenformin) for the potential development of this condition. I think this is not only misleading, but unethical to suggest that a drug that is potentially life-threatening has “virtually no side effects.” Especially when other drugs have been taken off shelves for the same side effect.... the popular argument that Truvada lowers condom use and asserts that Truvada is an effective prevention tool. While I am willing to accept Stern’s claim that Truvada is more than 99 percent effective, I wonder if he knows the same is true for condom use (a much less expensive form of prevention). What is especially interesting to me is this focus on sex in the context of HIV. In particular, the focus on the sex being had by gay men. The fact that (it) seems to think this pill is accessible enough to suggest all gay men take it only leads me to question how much (is) understood (about the intersection of) poverty, race, and structural barriers.
Truvada, a pre-exposure prophylactic (PrEP) that prevents the transmission of HIV. Essentially, you take this pill every day to prevent contracting the virus and developing the highly-manageable chronic illness. .......have gotten a few of the facts wrong: . .....why Truvada is more effective than other, less costly and less extreme alternatives. .....makes the assumption that HIV/AIDS is somehow a gay issue, and it is not...... fails to discuss the systemic complications of treating gay identities as “high-risk” chronic conditions that require being indentured to the medical industrial complex. .....writes, “Truvada has virtually no side effects,” he is wrong. The Truvada website’s Patient Assistance Page identifies lactic acidosis as a potential side effect of taking the drug; this side effect is potentially life-threatening and serious even when it doesn’t result in death. Lactic acidosis is when your body tissue and blood becomes too acidic and has a lactate build up. In the past the FDA has withdrawn drugs (such as phenformin) for the potential development of this condition. I think this is not only misleading, but unethical to suggest that a drug that is potentially life-threatening has “virtually no side effects.” Especially when other drugs have been taken off shelves for the same side effect.... the popular argument that Truvada lowers condom use and asserts that Truvada is an effective prevention tool. While I am willing to accept Stern’s claim that Truvada is more than 99 percent effective, I wonder if he knows the same is true for condom use (a much less expensive form of prevention). What is especially interesting to me is this focus on sex in the context of HIV. In particular, the focus on the sex being had by gay men. The fact that (it) seems to think this pill is accessible enough to suggest all gay men take it only leads me to question how much (is) understood (about the intersection of) poverty, race, and structural barriers.
And the FDA just approved this very addictive drug for children as young as 11 years old. Joy. Get them hooked when they're young.
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