![New Federal Program Provides Free HIV Prevention Drugs to Uninsured New Federal Program Provides Free HIV Prevention Drugs to Uninsured](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipsXPl91k6zg9tbry1GHYsXmU_ZQFR5VZ22fYpvunsNR15m45qdf35uOp-wiMNkUwlFJpj4fLguYbtrbLWHMhlzynwgoq3kkMfAuWPD3b1SynEiR0u0Zse1Cs6dhKC0tO3SVmgg-6U5kKD/s1600/hiv-drug.jpg)
Use of these daily drugs - called PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) - significantly reduces the risk that a person who is HIV-free will contract the AIDS-causing virus through sex or injection drug use, the Associated Press reported.
However, only about 18% of the 1.2 million Americans who might benefit from the medications got a prescription last year, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
Without insurance, the drugs can cost a person up to $2,000 a month, the AP reported.
Expanding access to PrEP is an important part of the federal government's aim of ending the nation's HIV epidemic by 2030.
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