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so. here's the thing. the cost of lifelong treatment doesn't matter, because they're gonna find a way to not provide lifelong treatment to queers who get HIV. hope that clarifies things.

You assume there will be lifelong treatment or healthcare at all for those people who become infected?

I'm not gonna pay for the Atlantic today but the screenshot appears to be about PEPFAR, the international program run in part by USAID before it was de facto shut down. The entire future of that program is unclear.

They're not planning to provide treatment, affordable or otherwise. The point is murder.

They wants queer people to die, Saloni.

their goal is to kill gay people

They don't care about the money. They are trying to kill people. They have decided that is worth the extra cost.

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Its not about cost, it's about punishing queer people and making us social pariahs.

They want us to die. That's the point.

They're not planning on treating those folks. They're looking for them to die.

They want to punish lgbtqia+ people. Fuck that.

They are mostly fune with gardasul now that they heard it prevents testicular cancer

No one thinks it's about saving money

I really, really need all of you to understand this is not, and has never been, about saving money or reducing cost, and every time someone gives them the benefit of the doubt on that, it only serves to further legitimize them. It has only ever been about killing people they hate. That's it.

That’s a good question. HIV PrEP is needed most by gay men & trans women in the U.S. & poor African women, all notably disfavored groups. But Gilead stands to make a lot of $$ from it, so we’ll see who prevails.

Prevention is bad for business.

This thread is not about assuming the decision is about cost. It's to say that the decision doesn't hold up those grounds, when people argue that's what it's about.

My college-aged son is on this, as are most of his queer friends. This is murder.

They’re literally trying to kill marginalized people.

You say that like they won't just deny treatment on the basis that it's "self-inflicted via sin" or some bullshit.

Really interesting in how they're so fixated on HIV being the "gay disease" that they seem unaware that it's more common in heterosexual people now and also apparently want to continue that.