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Birth control has way less leeway than the parent describes hiv treatment. Oral birth control fluctuates wildly and must be taken literally within the same hour
by SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago
Birth control has way less leeway than the parent describes hiv treatment. Oral birth control fluctuates wildly and must be taken literally within the same hour or so every day. I don’t think birth control and hiv transmissibility are comparable cases here, because the potential for pregnancy and the potential for hiv infection don’t appear to work remotely similarly. I don’t personally have a horse in this race, I’m merely pointing out I think this comes off as not understanding pregnancy prevention, hiv treatment, or both.
- nostromo 4y agoNo analogy is perfect. My point is that people go on and off HIV medication all the time for all sorts of reasons: costs, burden, side effects, etc. By comparison birth control is very easy. It’s an example how medicine can be effective, but still create risks in real life.
- SamoyedFurFluff 4y agoThe parent poster says going off hiv medication doesn’t really happen outside of external circumstances and even when it does it takes weeks to cause a problem. This isn’t the same for birth control.
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