Killing Grandma for Gay sex in the UK, by Jane Kelly.

[A] High Court judge [recently] ordered the NHS to provide daily pills to 10,000 gay men who don’t have HIV but are at high risk of being infected through unprotected sex. It will cost taxpayers in England £400 a patient, about £20 million a year.

The drug, …known as Prep, is given to high-risk groups, mainly young promiscuous men. It’s currently used in the US, Canada, Australia and France to help protect the most at-risk gay men.

NHS England, which funds drugs for cure, rather than prevention, had refused to prescribe Prep. … It also stated that spending on Prep might mean they couldn’t afford other treatments; such as drugs for children with cystic fibrosis, stem cell transplants for a rare blood cancer, and prosthetic knees for amputees. …

Results from four trials, which compared [Prep] against a placebo, showed a reduction in the risk of acquiring HIV infection by about 51 per cent.

There is evidence of a dramatic fall in condom use among men taking the drug, leaving them exposed to other infections. A recent French study found that condom use declined to just 24 per cent among men taking Prep. There is a chance that the HIV virus may evolve to become resistant to Prep resulting in a much deadlier strain. …

There is so much wrong with this. Incentives and government help gone crazy.

hat-tip Stephen Neil