I’d be curious as to the Vatican stance on this. While there are those who believe HIV is a “homosexual disease”, my contention is whether this is true or not, HIV is now here to stay with any who fornicate. I realise it’s a Catch-22 situation with the no-condom rule, but a pill like this one is just absurd. It is basically telling children to have lots of sex and don’t worry about contracting HIV. See, THIS is precisely why we DO, desperately need the church back in our lives… To protect us! From evil, frosting and from HIV even!

Yes Patrick, because sex or “fornication” as you put it is the only way that someone can catch HIV! It never ceases to amaze me how trolls such as yourself hide behind fake names and pictures of other people. If you have something to say, then go ahead and say it publicly!

So Patrick, what your saying is, is that the church will save us from HIV?

Conor – Are you serious? Are you referring to all those intravenous drug users who share needles?

Anthony – I am indeed saying that the Catholic church teaches a practical morality which lessens the chance of contracting HIV. Do you disagree?

Go on Patrick, tell us your real name, I dare you! If you have all of this marvellous, insightful stuff to enlighten the world with, surely the world ought to know the soldier of Christ that brought us such information!!!

About 8-14 yrs at a guess depending on other factors are usually left on a drug patent once approval is received. drugs get fasttracked sometimes and that adds a year or two.

Appears that it will still cost too much even if it is available for cheaper prices in poorer countries and if they are not going to take it then there is not much point.

From Businessweek

“Gilead sells Truvada in the least-developed countries at no profit and has given the rights to sell the drug to Indian generic makers to help lower the price in 112 countries, said Cara Miller, a spokeswoman for the Foster City, California-based company, the world’s leading (GILD) maker of HIV drugs.

The treatment sells for as little as $8 a month in some low-income countries, she said by e-mail.”

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-15/anti-aids-pill-out-of-sex-worker-reach-in-push-for-cure#p1

From NY Times

“The failure of a daily pill to protect healthy African women against AIDS may not have been the pill’s fault but the women’s reluctance to take it, scientists at an important AIDS conference in Seattle were told this week.

Last April, a promising trial of “pre-exposure prophylaxis” — giving small protective doses of antiretroviral drugs to uninfected people — was stopped early because women were getting infected anyway. It was a discouraging setback.

But scientists at this week’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections who analyzed blood samples taken from the women reported that only a quarter of those who got infected had any of the drug, Truvada, in their blood. That suggested they had not taken their pills”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/health/research/setback-on-aids-pill-is-re-evaluated.html

No pill is 100% effective. And there’s more than one way to contract HIV..

There are many people who would gladly pay for such a pill.. even if it only very slightly reduces their risk of acquiring a disease. People who are generally at little or no risk tend to overlook how important new drugs are, but if you’re at high risk then anything that reduces that, no matter how insignificantly; is welcome. And drugs such as this aren’t just designed to protect ‘you’.. they’re designed to protect everyone else as well.

The NHS here is looking into this, if they approve it, they will pay for those that want it.

@mart yes i agree but at $14,000 a year only the rich can afford this drug and even at that price its not 100% that you wont get it.. so in countries where this pill could do wonders such as any numerous African countries its completely out of reach.. so what’s the point? its a step forward and i know eventually the price will come down hopefully to a point where it is affordable but right at this moment you wonder the point of such a pill :/ @Mark if thats true thats a great thing and makes me also jealous of your free healthcare lol

Our healthcare system is far from free, it is paid for by our high income tax and national insurance. Nothing is free in this world.