Recently I sat down with Ernest Hopkins, Legislative Director at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation 
, and Bob Grant, M.D.,M.P.H. , Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institute at University of California San Francisco , to talk about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Here is a video from our conversation.
Interview with Ernest Hopkins and Bob Grant about Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
August 6, 2010 • 1 comment • By Miguel Gomez, Director, AIDS.gov, and Senior Communications Advisor, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
I was living in San Francisco in ’80/’81 when the “strange” virus first hit. I remember the “panic”. I moved to Europe in ’84 to Holland in ’88. Caught HIV/Hep C in ’92. Went on Viramune-Epivir & Viread in ’02. Sometimes when I look at the evening news with reports from Africa, Asia…and I’m sorry to say the USA,I feel “guilty” “cause I live in a country now that really DOES take care of their people. Why does…is a human being’s life a “political COST issue” ?
What IS the worth of one human life and who decides who gets the medicines…and who dies. I simply don’t get this. MdJ