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Bugchasing: intentionally infecting yourself with HIV (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by jannis@feddit.de to c/creepywikipedia@lemmy.world
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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-exposure_prophylaxis

Basically a pill you take every day to make you immune from HIV. Which is useful for people who are sexually active.

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PrEP isn't a magical pill that makes you immune to HIV, it's a fixed combination of medicines used to treat actual HIV infections taken in advance to prevent the virus from adding its genetic code to your CD4 immune cells DNA.

As any medication it has limitations (requires high compliance, especially in on-demand settings; only protects against HIV; ...) and side effects.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything you said is 100% true. Absolutely.

But compared to the horror of potentially getting HIV, it's pretty magical in promiscuous circles.

It's much better than the alternative

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see HIV patients on a daily basis at my job and there is no almost no horror. I haven't seen a "real" AIDS case (the final stadium of the infection) in years and even the one patient that came close had a Lazarus like recovery once he started ART.
HIV is still a serious disease with comorbidities but it's "only" chronical not lethal.

But a prevented infection is better than a treated one, so you're right.