Anti-AIDS Pill Out of Sex-Worker Reach in Push for Cure
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In a Bangkok go-go bar, a prostitute in a transparent miniskirt who goes by the name “Joy” said she’s ready to benefit from one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in the 30-year fight against AIDS.
The 23-year-old sex worker says she’d like the chance to use Gilead Sciences Inc.’s pill Truvada to help protect her from becoming one of the 530,000 people in Thailand with HIV.