BCN PrEP · Point

BCN PrEP · Point will dispense the drug once its use in Spain is approved

GAYLES.TV.- BCN · PrEP Point It is a pioneer center in Europe specialized in PrEP (Prophylaxis). The center is an annex of BCN Checkpoint and reinforces the bet of Projecte dels NOMS-Hispanosida awarded by the PrEP as one of the pillars of its global strategy to significantly reduce the incidence of HIV in the gay community, other men who have sex with men and women transsexuals.

La PrEP is not yet approved in Spain, But Barcelona You will already have facilities ready for implementation once it is approved. further BCN PrEP · Point it will host studies on this new preventive tool and provide medical support to people who are already using it on their own. The center will have medical consultations and its own "Point of Care" laboratory. The team that will serve users will include 3 doctors and other health professionals, thanks to a collaboration agreement with the Foundation Fight against AIDS and Institute for AIDS Research IrsiCaixa.

The medical officer of BCN Checkpoint, Pep Coll, has stated that «there are clear cost-effectiveness reasons»To implement PrEP, although he has affirmed that the current price of the drug is difficult to assume, they are 400 per month, a price that would fall with the generic.

Every day, ten new cases are diagnosed in Spain

The new center arrives late, the director of BCN Checkpoint, Ferran Pujol, already denounced in its day the delay of its approval by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat. Recall that every day that is not implemented PrEP, «Two people are diagnosed in Catalonia and ten in Spain». «With the administration of PrEP to 1.500 people in Catalonia - some are diagnosed 800 new annual infections-, the incidence of the virus «would plummet«, He warned Pujol a few months ago.