Oh my god, this is fucking huge. It was huge when we developed a daily PrEP pill that could prevent you from catching HIV; this is a successful phase III trial of a PrEP shot that will only need to be given *twice a year*. Still needs a confirmatory Phase III, but holy fuck.
And they push it heavily not just to the queer community or the sexually promiscuous but also for direct-care professionals.
As well as people with travel visas to higher risk countries.
Much easier to get people to keep up if it’s not framed as a sex proclivity like the recent M-Pox outbreak.
True.
Also here is where I admit something: When I went to get my mpox vaccination, there was an attractive man about my age also there waiting for one, and I briefly debated asking him out, because, statistically...
Or the foot-dragging reluctance of (often evangelical) parents to get teens inoculated against HPV, especially boys who can carry it with little or no symptoms.
Meanwhile, I was out there trying to find someone willing to give me the HPV vaccination sequence. The exact numbers might be different, but it was something like I was 23 when it became available for men up to 21, then 28 when it became available to 26, etc. Finally got it ~10 years ago.
