Groups want HIV prevention treated as a health issue

PETALING JAYA: Several AIDS related foundations have spoken out against the call by a group of local medical experts for the Health Ministry to review its plans to scale up the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to curb the spread of HIV.

In a joint statement, the Malaysian AIDS Foundation (MAF), the Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC) and Malaysian Society for HIV Medicine (MASHM) argued that HIV prevention should be treated as a health-related issue.