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Drug Patents Are Stifling Progress and Making us Sicker - Left Voice (www.leftvoice.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The US government has emergency powers to limit patents. I can't recall a time it's been yet in recent memory (but they could pull out the parliamentarian bullshit).

But you'd think a drug that reduces the transmission of HIV down to under a percent would be freely available. I mean just make it freely available, have doctors recommend it when applicable, and we could reduce HIV to a more manageable condition.

I think about gay men I've talked to who couldn't afford PrEP or didn't even know it existed. Sex education is a nightmare in the US and we're sending lgbt kids in blind when there are so many resources stuck behind paywalls.