The US (and other high-income countries) are not included in that licensing deal, meaning the non-insured in those countries will hafta wait for the domestic patent protections to expire (2034-2041) or be successfully challenged in the courts.
Since the Affordable Care Act it’s been a legal mandate for all non-grandfathered-in insurances to cover all A & B recommendations with zero copay, which includes PrEP. Sources: HIV.gov, USPSTF.
Any disease that specializes in inserting itself into the host genome and then eradicating their immune system needs to be wiped out.
It’s total soup weather too. I love me some homemade soups like Galician garbanzo and anything tomato-based with big chunks of previously stir-fried veggies. 😋
slid into yer DMs
Just to clarify the potentially confusing title. This drug came out three months ago in the US, is a version of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) that only needs to be taken every six months, and is free with most insurances if you’re in an at-risk demo.
Yeah HIV doesn’t use traditional warfare: it bombs hospitals. 😔
Free with many insurances though! It may take a little longer to get a “Prior Authorization,” but as long as you say you’re in an at-risk group for HIV (Google these) it will eventually get approved.
The rationale is that since treating HIV+/AIDS is so astronomically more expensive than merely paying for this once every 6 months PrEP, that insurance actuaries determine the latter to be way more in the insurance company’s interest.
This is good since it doesn’t require the insurance companies to be ethical, just cheap. But a win-win is still a win-win, so I say take it where you can get em. {Former pharmacist here, feel free to reach out and ask how to get non-addictive drugs covered} 🪿
Same. Now I’m an unemployed Mr Doctor who’s trying to begin to learn how to impose self-structure. Want to go back to school but another BS (or a first Master’s) is hard to get funded and a PhD requires solo research to even have a competitive application.
Maybe our group should at least be teaching the next batch of gifteds and adding in our lived shortcomings to the lessons. 🤷
For those like me who didn’t know this word:
ardent - Displaying or characterized by strong enthusiasm or devotion; fervent.
People didn’t really jif it a chance.
Emotional space is easier to navigate than semantic space, and people are lazy. The best LLMs have parameters in the multiple 100s of billions and they’re not able to parse at a human-level. That’s more neurons than’s in the human brain (~86B). I’m not even sure what my point is, too lazy to keep the thread. I’ma take a nap. You take care.
Tell that to tau tangles and amyloid plaques.