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AHF on Latest PrEP Ad: "What Is Different Than What We've Said Before?"In response to ongoing and inaccurate media coverage and reporting on AHF's position on the use of Gilead Science's AIDS treatment Truvada for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is releasing this statement to reiterate and clarify where AHF stands-and has stood-on PrEP. Kindly Tell Us What Is Different Than What We've Said Before on PrEP? "From the beginning, AHF's position on PrEP has been mischaracterized and demonized as a 'black or white' position with many individuals, as well as media outlets, wrongly claiming that AHF was and is completely against PrEP. This is not-and has never been-true. There has always been far more nuance or 'gray' to AHF's position on PrEP, something that may be harder-and less salacious-for reporters to write about. Our medical providers write prescriptions for PrEP. Our AHF Pharmacies fill prescriptions for PrEP. However…
We need to depart from this winner/losers mentality. This reaction shows just how much is wrong with the intellectual discourse in the AIDS community today. Can we not have an open, honest discussion? Perhaps these attitudes shed some light as to how and why 70% of the 1.2 million people already living with HIV/AIDS in this country today do not have their virus suppressed. At the end of the day-and then as now-AHF sees PrEP is an individual option not a general solution." About AHF AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, currently provides medical care and/or services to over 451,000 individuals in 36 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific Region and Eastern Europe. To learn more about AHF, please visit our website: www.aidshealth.org, find us on Facebook (News - Alert): www.facebook.com/aidshealth and follow us on Twitter (News - Alert): @aidshealthcare.
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