Gay Campaigners Win NHS Drug Battle.

[Jim Brady]

The High Court has told the NHS in England it can fund a drug that can prevent HIV-after health bosses argued it was not their responsibility.This drug cost's £400.00 per month,a lot of money,why should gay men be funded for this if they want to carry on the lifestyle that they live without using a condom.If they are afraid of catching HIV they should protect themselves and if they wish to take this £400.00 pm drug let them fund it theirselves.
Regards.
Jim.B.

HIV campaigners win NHS drug battle - BBC News

[Captain Kong]

All they need is a packet of Durex, £1 for three in the Gents. Much cheaper than £20,000,000
Brian

[robpage]

Unlike the NHS that was introduced in 1949 the one we have now has limited funds I agree with Brian why should we fund any person male or female in the high risk HIV groups good quote Jeremy Kyle they could always put a rubber on it


In our democratic government of the people by the people for the people unfortunately minority pressure groups where's a good press attention have a lot more say than what they deserve whether it be field sports or anti-nuclear peace groups or Scottish independence this is when democracy fails

[happy daze john in oz]

There was a guy at the bus stop the other day, he had a walking stick.
A family of four came along just as the bus arrived.
"only room for three'

"you go with the kids love, I will get the next one'

The guy with the stick kept tap tap on the pavement.

'You can get a rubber to go on that you know' said the man.

"yes and if you had put a rubber on yours we would all have got on the bus.

[John Pruden]

don't forget people we have a lot of rape here by immigrants a lot illegal immigrants with no history and also blood is needed some could carry the virus so in a way just having the drug is a good thing? jp

[David Williams]

Hi Jim.
Isnt HIV some sort of a"SELF INFLICTED WOUND"
as you suggest,they bring this on themselves so should
tend to their own needs.This £400.00 could well be used
somewhere else in the NHS buy people with an illness that
really needs extra cash spent on it.
Dave Williams

[robpage]

This is the modern problems with the NHS Treatment the budget dictates . In 2005 and 2006 when my wife was terminally ill with a very aggressive cancer we had and availability of a chemotherapy called Taxol. The job I had had private medicine funding with it similar to what we call Bupa today if we had not have had that the latest and toughest chemotherapy would not have been available on the NHS . The five week course of treatment cost my insurers £55,000 . So when I look at what treatment cost my first reaction to the HIV campaigners is you need this course of treatment because you can't be bothered to use a physical protective measure and I'm afraid I don't see that personally as good value for money for what is a very tight budget within the NHS . The £20,000,000 a year that it could cost could easily be saved by people either abstaining from sex or demanding that their partner is tested free from infection or by wearing a condom . If I were there accountant and was given the option of treating 4000 of the high risk from catching AIDS people or doing 2000 hip replacement or employing a further 200 accident and emergency consultants then I am afraid in my opinion the high risk from catching AIDS people would be waitng an awful long time in my queue . There is a lot of heterosexual HIV comes out of Africa because it is beneath an African man pride to wear protection a lot of them believe that you shouldn't after all you're a man . When this first came out I remember listening to a leading clinicians one of the professors that they roll out in front of the media when new things happen and he was talking about the amount of funding raised particularly in the United States and particularly from the publicity given by the theatrical Community he stated that if he had the amount of money at his university research department that has been devoted to finding a cure or a prevention for AIDS at that time he firmly believed he could take one of the common cancers and find a permanent cure for it . That could have been clinician speak for we need more money for research but I actually took the man to be genuine . I would be so Bold as to suggest that the spread of AIDS throughout the world in the vast majority of cases neglecting of course the poor hemophiliacs who caught it by the medicine they were given that safe sex could have prevented it . But I am rather bemused with the fact that I High Court Judge can order the NHS how to spend our money maybe we could have a referendum on it