Ethan… and Ben

Jonathan Groff, Jason Momoa, Wyatt Cenac, Dwayne Johnson… I'm all over the place.

@farkme:

So the drug isn't working to prevent HIV in people are are taking it properly. Its pissing money down the drain because its not working as a preventative.

In both cases, and that's exactly two people out of 30,000+ taking PrEP in the US, the people who got infected contracted rare strains of the virus that are resistant to Truvada. It would be one thing if such strains were common but they aren't it would be a miraculous if the failure rate for condoms were as low as it is for Truvada. Pretending that it is infective because it is not invincible is not just dishonest. It's dangerous.

1. Gay men don't make up 10% of the UK population
2. Even if they did, they wouldn't all be on PrEP. The target population is more or less sexual active single or non-monogamous gay adult men, trans women, sex workers and those in serodiscordant relationships. It would be generous to say that together they make up 3% of the population.
3. If cost is a concern then the NHS could easily choose to purchase £44/month generic PrEP assuming they wouldn't be able to negotiate a much better bulk rate.

If they really wanted to, NHS could find some money to pay for this out of their £116.4 billion budget

I get a 100Mbps symmetrical. It's nice. It used to be hard to take advantage of that speed but a lot os servers are catching up. I can't wait for gigabit internet to be more widely available though.