• HIV drug PrEP price to be slashed, increasing chance of eliminating virus in Aus
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HIV drug PrEP price to be slashed, increasing chances of elimina.. The cost of HIV-prevention drug PrEP will be slashed, with the final hurdle now cleared for adding it to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). Hailed as a "game changer" for gay men, the preventative medicine is up to 99 per cent effective in stopping the spread of HIV, if taken daily. The $180 million federal subsidy for the drug, "puts Australia in reach of being one of the first countries in the world to end the transmission of HIV", Health Minister Greg Hunt said. In February, pre-exposure prophylaxis was recommended for listing on the PBSby a panel of experts and Mr Hunt will today announce the cost of the medicine will drop significantly from April 1. "PrEP is a medical innovation that will save Australian lives and the decision to list it is one of the most significant advancements in HIV transmission Australia has ever seen," Mr Hunt said. "32,000 patients each year will pay a maximum of only $39.50 per script … without subsidy, patients would pay $2,496 per year for this medicine.
I'm missing some sort of actual scale, but that looks like a big fucking pill. I'd post it if we had thumbnails, but it's at the top of the article and pretty big, so I'll avoid it.
big pills for a big dick
Isn't that 5mg of active ingredient? I doubt your pills are 100% pure medication
this sounds great and all, but you need to be taking it daily and it prevents the infection being spread to you. i know the article says this is big for the gay community, but unprotected sex happens, it's stupid, but it happens. this won't end the transmission of hiv in australia unless every single person, who might have unprotected sex, is taking this daily.
Herd immunity. It applies to more than just the flu and airborne diseases, simply adding a damper between infected and those at risk should be enough to drastically reduce infection rates. Assuming that HIV behaves vaguely like Ebola as far as its R0 goes (how many cases a single original case can cause) because they both spread by bodily fluids, just 30-60% of the at-risk population taking PrEP should be enough to achieve herd immunity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanism
HIV's infection rate is actually extremely low. You just have to break up the infection chain enough that it can't continue.
oh yeah, i read that wrong thought it was the other way around. this is great then.
Good news. It's a suppository
It depends on the manufacturer. My atavis 50mg pills are the same size as the 200mg pills.
The number on the packaging always refers to the amount of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in each tablet or capsule. The actual size of the tablet/capsule depends on several things, but the requirement that it must be easy to swallow places an obvious restriction on the maximum size. APIs are almost never pressed into a tablet or packaged into a capsule on their own, or at least I'm not aware of any that are. They're usually mixed with excipients to facilitate bulk handling, make accurate dosing easier, increase stability in long-term storage, improve palatability, and for many other reasons. The size of the tablet or capsule depends on the amount and type of excipients added and the processes used to make the final product; the physical properties of the API itself such as bulk density and crystal morphology also affect it to a lesser extent.
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