President Trump’s State of the Union Address contained a number of distortions, false claims and outright lies regarding drug pricing and access to medicines. Skyrocketing drug prices are a life and death issue for people with HIV in the U.S. and around the world. Here’s a side by side comparison of the facts versus what Trump said.
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According to the CDC, as of 2015, youth ages 13-24 comprised a staggering 22% of all new HIV infections in the United States. Given this alarming incidence rate, developing new and effective HIV prevention modalities for adolescents and young adults, and eliminating major delivery barriers, has become a priority. In the sphere area of biomedical HIV prevention for at-risk adolescents, one legal barrier looms large.
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