Generic Prep

[kitpig]

Just wondering if any guys in the UK have experience of the Generic PrEP (Tenvir-EM)... is it any good, does the NHS help with the kidney function testing etc. and do the GUM clinics help or do they say you should only take truvada?

Thanks in advance

[bearbandit]

Talk to the guys at http://www.iwantprepnow.co.uk/. But the basic run-down is that there's not been an instance yet of anyone getting anything but the genuine article as proven by testing of drug levels in the blood. They're working on a list of clinics who are prepared to do the HIV, liver and kidney testing as tart of a standard STI checkup. My personal thought is that they should be treating use of tenvir-em the same as they treat any other drug use: non-judgementally and with an eye to making sure that it's as safe as possible, which obviously would mean doing all the tests. It should be noted that many GUM clinics are outraged by the decision not to provide truvada as PrEP, because expensive as "the real thing truvada" is, it's way cheaper than a lifetime's worth of HIV treatment.

The guys at http://www.iwantprepnow.co.uk/are very down to earth, and there's nothing you can tell them they haven't heard before or done themselves.

You don't say whereabouts you are in the UK, so it may be that you'd need to travel: it's not unknown for people with HIV to travel a couple of hundred miles to get our treatment, largely because we've learned to be picky.

Best of luck!

[Groeg]

I have taken Tenvir for a couple months when I was in between insurances. My doc looked at it and said "it's the same". My experience is that it did the trick