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Re:New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinica... by compass_copium on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @10:12AM (#49084187)
Again, inaccurate. You can get a PrEP shot twice a year now.

Access is a valid point. Perhaps the money being used to fund a superfluous vaccine should be used to fund access to PrEP in the Third World.

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Re:New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinica... by thinkcontext on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @11:11AM (#49085141)
> Perhaps the money being used to fund a superfluous vaccine should be used to fund access to PrEP in the Third World

An astounding statement. Is it not possible that a vaccine giving decades of protection would give better health outcomes than doing PrEP every 6 months?

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Re:New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinica... by Muromec on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @01:25PM (#49087139)
Or maybe we should solve poverty which is a proxy to all kinds of solved problems that somehow still exist
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