{"id":28361,"date":"2019-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/03\/new-federal-program-provides-free-hiv-prevention-drugs-to-uninsured\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T17:10:06","slug":"new-federal-program-provides-free-hiv-prevention-drugs-to-uninsured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/03\/new-federal-program-provides-free-hiv-prevention-drugs-to-uninsured\/","title":{"rendered":"New Federal Program Provides Free HIV Prevention Drugs to Uninsured"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Expanding access to PrEP is key part of government&#8217;s aim of ending nation&#8217;s HIV epidemic by 2030<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A new program to provide free HIV prevention drugs to people who cannot afford them because they do not have health insurance was announced Tuesday by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>Use of daily preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) significantly reduces the risk that a person who is HIV-free will contract the AIDS-causing virus through sex or injection drug use, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, only about 18 percent of the 1.2 million Americans who might benefit from the medications got a prescription last year, according to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. Without insurance, the drugs can cost a person up to $2,000 a month, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding access to PrEP is an important part of the federal government&#8217;s aim of ending the nation&#8217;s HIV epidemic by 2030.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/8cf7cae6933b1c3c5d385e67eb66118f\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expanding access to PrEP is key part of government&#8217;s aim of ending nation&#8217;s HIV epidemic by 2030<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-28361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}