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Re:Treat Medicines Like Netflix Treats Shows by Anon84 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:58AM (#19329074)
> No one's pumping Hep C drugs into people who don't have Hep C

However, that is what is being done with HIV drugs under the guise of PrEP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-exposure_prophylaxis

So I wouldn't be so quick to rule it out, specially if Pharma companies see a way to profit out of it.

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Re:Treat Medicines Like Netflix Treats Shows by fwip on Thursday March 07, 2019 @11:34AM (#19329422)
> Under the guise of

I thought y'all were all about prevention? Now you're acting like preventing acquisition of a lifetime disease is a bad thing.

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Re:Treat Medicines Like Netflix Treats Shows by Anon84 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:23PM (#19331949)
Prevention is great, and I'm certainly a big fan of it...

but by overexposing people to the drugs that are actually effective against HIV we're both helping the virus evolve around them and having to deal with whatever adverse side effects the drugs have on healthy patients.

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