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Preventative HIV drug to be rolled out across England on the NHS

NHS England will cover the costs of the drug, having carried out a three-year study involving more than 20,000 people.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2020-03-15 18:10
in Health, Lifestyle
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A drug which prevents HIV infections is to be made available on the NHS this year in a move to try and eliminate new transmissions of the virus within the decade.

PrEP – or pre-exposure prophylaxis – will be made routinely available to patients deemed to be at greater risk of catching HIV from April.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “We are rolling out PrEP and making it available across the country – with evidence showing it almost completely eradicates the chances of getting HIV. This will benefit tens of thousands of people’s lives, and drive us towards our ambition of zero HIV transmissions in this decade.”

Having HIV was once a “death sentence” and it still has “a devastating impact on so many lives across the country”, he said.

An HIV prevention drug named PrEP will be routinely available in England.

PrEP could benefit tens of thousands of people, it's a critical step to end HIV transmissions by 2030❌https://t.co/qsis7VD02L

Find out how PrEP works ?#PrEP #HIV pic.twitter.com/jDd8AvjiHx

— Department of Health and Social Care (@DHSCgovuk) March 15, 2020

NHS England will cover the costs of the drug, having carried out a three-year study involving more than 20,000 people.

The Department of Health said local authorities will be given funding from April, with £16 million to be made available in 2020/21, to commission services in England for the first time to patients.

Musician and Aids activist Sir Elton John told the Sunday Times the decision was the “right” one.

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He added: “Taking PrEP prevents HIV from being passed on, which is truly incredible.

“It is the right decision for the UK Government to roll this out more widely to minimise the spread of this disease so more people are protected — which is critical in fighting any epidemic.”

BREAKING:

Health Secretary @MattHancock has announced #PrEP WILL be uncapped in England. This is an important moment in the fight against HIV.

Roll-out must now happen rapidly so no one is left behind.

This is a victory years in the making. Thank you for standing with us. pic.twitter.com/N7xp0EpkMO

— Terrence Higgins Trust (@THTorguk) March 15, 2020

PrEP involves HIV negative people taking antiretroviral medicine, which work by stopping the virus replicating in the body.

PrEP is already available in Scotland to people who are considered to be at high risk of contracting HIV, and a trial of the drug is taking place in Wales.

According to the Terrence Higgins Trust, most recent estimates suggest there were around 103,800 people living with HIV in the UK , and around 7% of those are not aware they are HIV positive.

New diagnoses of HIV in the UK fell to their lowest level in almost two decades in 2018 – 4,484 people – due to the success of preventative measures, Public Health England said.

These include HIV testing, condom provision, and wider use of PrEP.

We finally have confirmation that #PrEP will be fully funded across England this year ?

This follows our five-year battle to get NHS England to consider PrEP and HIV prevention as part of its obligations.
#PrEP4All

Read our full statement here >> https://t.co/qaKnHKvS4x pic.twitter.com/rgXgjZrhtI

— National AIDS Trust (@NAT_AIDS_Trust) March 15, 2020

The roll-out comes after a long-running battle by campaign groups to “secure a guarantee of proper access to this game-changer for HIV prevention in England”, chief executive of the Terrence Higgins Trust, Ian Green, said.

Deborah Gold, the National Aids Trust chief executive, said: “Routine commissioning of PrEP brings us one step closer to our goal of ending new HIV transmissions by 2030, but many more lie ahead.”

Professor Noel Gill, of Public Health England, said that PrEP is “highly effective at protecting against HIV” when it is taken consistently and efforts to eliminate HIV transmission by 2030 “depends on making PrEP readily available to all at higher risk of acquiring HIV”.

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