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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by HaZeust on Friday June 21, 2024 @03:36PM (#40752880)
>Condoms are less effective at HIV prevention

lol what

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/condoms.html "condoms are highly effective in preventing HIV"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9141163/ 1997, "reexamination of HIV seroconversion studies suggests that condoms are 90 to 95% effective when used consistently"

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/prevention/condoms.html "Most condoms are effective in preventing HIV and certain other STIs"

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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by astura on Friday June 21, 2024 @07:05PM (#40754756)
Nobody said condoms were not effective, only that PrEP is MORE effective than condoms, which appears to be true.

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/prep/index.html

>PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by about 99%.

Last I checked 99 was greater than 95.

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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by HaZeust on Saturday June 22, 2024 @03:00PM (#40761264)
He didn't say "less effective than PrEP", he said "less effective", and PrEP wasn't the hereditary context of his statement.
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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by iknowstuff on Saturday June 22, 2024 @04:37PM (#40761983)
Yes it was. The person I responded to is asking why the person considering switching to injectable PrEP doesn't “just use condoms”
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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by astura on Sunday June 23, 2024 @08:45PM (#40771843)
You need to improve your reading comprehension.
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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by iknowstuff on Saturday June 22, 2024 @08:28AM (#40758617)
What do you need me to explain to you?
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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by HaZeust on Saturday June 22, 2024 @02:59PM (#40761260)
I want you to explain how condoms are less effective at preventing HIV transmission.
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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by iknowstuff on Saturday June 22, 2024 @04:36PM (#40761976)
They are indeed less effective than PrEP which is what the entire comment chain is about.
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