PrEP pill: ‘party drug’ or life saver?

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ABC Background Briefing, Sunday 26 October 2014 8:05AM

With HIV infections in Australia at a 20-year high, there’s a push to subsidise a daily pill that can stop transmission, but health professionals and the gay community are split over the drug, which some say will encourage risky sexual behaviour and could place a huge burden on the public health purse.

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By J Pope

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