pre-exposure prophylaxis, which is highly effective in preventing HIV)?According to PrEP4All, the exciting young AIDS activist organization organized in the tradition of ACT UP, 1.2 million people in the United States should be on PrEP, but only 241,000 are.“A gay black man in Mississippi is six times more likely to die from HIV than a gay white man in New York City,” James Krellenstein, executive director and cofounder of PrEP4All, told me.We as a community have a moral imperative to erase that gap, and PrEP4All is leading that fight.
Like the COVID promises being thrown around these days that everyone who wants a vaccine will get a vaccine, Krellenstein pointed out that we need the same commitment for PrEP.