The CDC wants 500,000 people to take a drug that costs $13000-a-year to protect them from AIDS .. UnF$$$ING Believable

Do the math (500,000 x $13,000 = $6,500,000,000) ... $6.5 BILLION .. And WHO do they think will pay for this?

Federal health officials recommended Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk for AIDS take a daily pill that has been shown to prevent infection with the virus that causes it.

If broadly followed, the advice could transform AIDS prevention in the United States — from reliance on condoms, which are effective, but unpopular with many men — to a regimen that relies on an antiretroviral drug.

It would mean a fiftyfold increase in the number of prescriptions for the drug, Truvada — to 500,000 a year from fewer than 10,000. The drug costs $13,000 a year, and most insurers already cover it. 

The guidelines tell doctors to consider the drug regimen, called PrEP, for pre-exposure prophylaxis, for gay men who have sex without condoms; heterosexuals with high-risk partners, such as drug injectors or male bisexuals who have unprotected sex; patients who regularly have sex with anyone they know is infected; and anyone who shares needles or injects drugs.

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have long been frustrated that the number of HIV infections in the United States has barely changed in a decade, stubbornly holding at 50,000 a year, despite 30 years of official advice to rely on condoms to block transmission. 

Although there is no guarantee that gay men will adopt PrEP, federal officials say something must be done because condom use is going down. In a recent CDC survey, the number of gay men admitting to recent, unprotected sex rose nearly 20 percent from 2005 to 2011. 

Nevertheless, advocates for PrEP were elated at Wednesday’s announcement.

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