The emergence of PrEP has among gay men essentially created two classes: on negative and one not. These two methods are ideally done in tandem for maximum effectiveness but more often than not are pitted against one another. The last decade has seen the emergence of two of the most promising efforts to end the epidemic: Treatment as Prevention and its subsequent public health campaign of Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U) and Pre-Exposure Prophylactic (PrEP) originally in the form of Truvada and now the more widely prescribed Descovy. Last year Brenden Shucart and I discussed the “controversy’ that pitted PrEP against TaSP: The ensuing years have not been without controversy.
J.D., a man who has and seemingly enjoys sex.” But debasing gays for being human while in a higher risk group seemed at best like a double standard and at worst a highly unethical and ineffective means for keeping them healthy.
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And whether we like it not, there are plenty of young gay men using drugs and having barrier free sex, not at all unlike their heterosexual counterparts. He represents his generation’s unexpected, and for some vexing, response to the epidemic. is the embodiment of perceived young gay male sexual autonomy. “I like to party…and I like to be safe,” adds Phoenix in the spot, which shows him picking up a man at a club, cruising on Grindr, and taking the PrEP pill at home. “When straight guys have a lot of sex, they’re called studs but when gay guys do, they’re called sluts,” says gay adult performer JD Phoenix, in a new campaign from Public Health Solutions to educate people about PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis).
The resulting 2015 campaign was a highly successful and helped rocket awareness for the then largely unknown HIV prophylactic drug Truvada aka PrEP.
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It was while here I worked in tandem with both CHS and Public Health Solutions writing, producing, and executing the media strategy for a series of PSAs for Gilead Sciences drug Truvada. In 2012 I was Chief Media Strategist for Connected Health Solutions Inc., a progressive new-media public health company that produces social marketing campaigns for the LGBT community, at- risk and minority teens, and other vulnerable populations.ĬHS Specialized in addressing systems that informed marginalized communities, HIV incidence, trans discrimination, HIV med-adherence, cyber-bullying, and many more social and public health strategies: they worked to amplify and disseminate the PSAs to the largest audience possible. I am proud to have been one of many people who helped make PrEP available for everyone. “If my husband or I got in a car accident and needed EMT care,” Cooper theorizes, “because there were no exceptions for emergencies or anything, the EMT could come out on a local ambulance, realize that we are a gay couple, and refuse - at that moment - to touch or transport my bleeding husband for care.”
Tom Oliverson, an anesthesiologist, introduced House Bill 1424, which would make it legal for medical providers to refuse care based on sincerely held moral or religious beliefs. Regarding the plaintiffs, the suit claims “neither they nor any of their family members are engaged in behavior that transmits HIV.” “It also compels religious employers and religious individuals who purchase health insurance to subsidize these behaviors as a condition of purchasing health insurance.” “The PrEP mandate forces religious employers to provide coverage for drugs that facilitate and encourage homosexual behavior, prostitution, sexual promiscuity, and intravenous drug use,” the lawsuit states. the United States of America, filed in federal court in 2020, Mitchell represents several clients who object to the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that insurance providers cover, among other things, preventive medications specifically for PrEP. Mitchell now has set his sights on Descovy and Truvada, two medications that help prevent HIV transmission when taken as PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, because those medications enable homosexual behavior, the suit states. Attorney Jonathan Mitchell the architect of a controversial Texas abortion law has already aimed at marriage equality, and now has set his sights on the HIV preventative drugs Truvada and Descovy.
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