{"id":72884,"date":"2016-08-02T14:14:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T21:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=72884"},"modified":"2016-09-22T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T16:19:09","slug":"county-to-expand-access-to-anti-hiv-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/08\/02\/county-to-expand-access-to-anti-hiv-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"County to expand access to anti-HIV pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-72885\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PrEP-anti-HIV-pill.jpg\" alt=\"PrEP anti HIV pill\" width=\"266\" height=\"210\" \/>LOS ANGELES &#8211; The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to spend $11.5 million over two years to expand access to PrEP, an anti-HIV pill, for uninsured and under-insured patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supervisor Sheila Kuehl championed broader use of PrEP, telling her colleagues that HIV still amounts to an epidemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;L.A. County continues to experience the second largest HIV epidemic in the country,&#8221; Kuehl said. &#8220;No single prevention program will completely curtail the spread of HIV, but expanding the use of PrEP could significantly reduce new infections.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PrEP is an acronym for pre-exposure prophylaxis. When taken daily as directed, the PrEP pill can reduce the risk of HIV infection by up to 99 percent, Kuehl said. The medication interferes with the virus&#8217;s ability to replicate and establish an infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The funding will go to 10 community-based health care providers, including the Los Angeles LGBT Center, Children&#8217;s Hospital, Tarzana Treatment Center and AIDS Project Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An estimated 2,000 Los Angeles residents become infected with HIV each year, including large numbers of gay men, African-Americans, Latinos and transgender people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About 50,000 Americans and 2 million worldwide were newly infected with HIV in 2014, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under federal guidelines, PrEP is recommended only for those who are HIV- negative and have an &#8220;ongoing substantial risk of HIV infection.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another drug, PEP or post-exposure prophylaxis, is designed for those seeking to prevent HIV after a single high-risk event of exposure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to spend $11.5 million over two years to expand access to PrEP, an anti-HIV pill, for uninsured and under-insured patients. Supervisor Sheila Kuehl championed broader use of PrEP, telling her colleagues that HIV still amounts to an epidemic. &#8220;L.A. County continues to experience the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":72885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}