Alie Ward

Magda wanted to know if they've never been sexually active and never plan to be if they're ace, do they still need a pap smear?

And Rick Gillespie, Bjorn Fredberg, Etta Goom, Erla Gramelken, and Zach Everate wanted to know, where are we at?

Rick wanted to know, with the current administration dismantling many health safety card rails with vaccines too, like what impact do you think we're looking at in terms of STIs and their treatment?

And any advice for if you don't have insurance or if something's not funded?

Yeah, that makes sense.

Good news, though.

The Washington Research Foundation recently awarded a big grant to continue developing mRNA therapy for folks with genital herpes.

So good stuff is still happening.

And on the subject of hopeful progress for certain populations, Scott LaForse, Addie Capello, Stacey Pinkowitz, Goblin Prince, A.J.

Wynn, and Bennett Vasterbosch, as well as Moth, had questions about HIV, AIDS, PrEP, and more.

When it comes to HIV and AIDS, we had a few people who wanted to know if you just don't like Addie Capello said, can you talk about the transition from HIV to AIDS?

Like what's happening biologically and kind of like the TLDR in a nutshell of like HIV AIDS prep?

For sure.

I mean, to see this happen in a generation is almost magic.

To see that and to see science make that leap, also to see it be accessible to so many people.

Mm hmm.

Now I don't know what's going on.

Yeah.

And going back to that, the way that morality and how things are politicized and movements of seeing infections as a punishment is just is crazy to me.

But oh, Flim Flam, anonymous wanted to know chlamydia in the eyes.