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Re:Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered by jfengel on Thursday August 01, 2019 @10:32AM (#20583975)
They were speaking of medicine rather than policy, and getting it wrong. PReP is not the same course as treatment, and prophylaxis is always a thing given to healthy people rather than sick ones. The side effects are considered manageable: you watch for signs of liver problems and you don't give the drug to people prone to them.

I'm not a doctor but I can read the prescribing information[1], which they don't seem to have done.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20161221124917/http://www.access...

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Re:Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered by hcurtiss on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:08PM (#20585941)
Arguing the facts is totally good. And you may very well be right (I don't know anything about the subject). But attacking the commenter's position because he/she is not a doctor (like you are not a doctor), struck me as poor form.
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Re:Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered by jfengel on Thursday August 01, 2019 @02:27PM (#20586754)
You're correct about that. I apologize.
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