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The global failure to push PrEP is hindering the fight against HIV

The global failure to push PrEP is hindering the fight against HIV

1 January 2020

The UN set a target of 3 million people on the HIV prevention drug PrEP by 2020 – but lingering prejudice and sheer ignorance of its existence mean we're nowhere near
Blue tablets

WHO classes HIV drug as an essential medicine

14 June 2017

Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP has been added to the WHO's list of essential medicines, highlighting England's failure to provide the drug to those most at risk

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