PrEP in Australia

[mike carey]

The government has approved the inclusion of PrEP in the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. This means that the drug will be subsidised and each prescription will cost about AUD40 (or AUD6 for people on benefits, such as unemployment and disability support payments, federal age pensions and low income health cards).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-09/aids-drug-prep-prophylaxis-to-go-on-pbs/9415992

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/08/hiv-prevention-drug-prep-likely-to-be-approved-for-federal-subsidy

[+ José Soplanucas]

The government has approved the inclusion of PrEP in the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. This means that the drug will be subsidised and each prescription will cost about AUD40 (or AUD6 for people on benefits, such as unemployment and disability support payments, federal age pensions and low income health cards).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-09/aids-drug-prep-prophylaxis-to-go-on-pbs/9415992

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/08/hiv-prevention-drug-prep-likely-to-be-approved-for-federal-subsidy

 

I am getting my Truvada for free...

in the USA!!!!!!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

 

[mike carey]

I am getting my Truvada for free...

in the USA!!!!!!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

Yes, I can, and these sorts of schemes are available for some drugs here, mainly when they are experimental or when they are not on the PBS. But not once they are on the PBS. I'm sure that drug companies factor in their 'retail' sales and their free schemes into their overall average earnings per dose when they agree on a price they will accept from single payer health systems. The pharmaceutical element of the Australian health system is universal, everyone pays the same rate (one of the two I mentioned).

[MikeBiDude]

I am getting my Truvada for free...

in the USA!!!!!!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

 

I just started it (yay me!) and my (new January 2018) insurance didn’t charge a copay so far? My blood pressure me was usual $5 but zero for truvada

[TruthBTold]

I am getting my Truvada for free...

in the USA!!!!!!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

 

 

For some reason I do too. I think my insurance covers a certain portion and then the manufacturer pays my co-pay. But even better it counts toward my total out-of-pocket so that at a certain point I am paying nothing for all my meds because I have reached my out-of-pocket portion.