{"id":2113,"date":"2019-10-05T07:53:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T07:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2019-10-05T07:53:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T07:53:21","slug":"new-york-state-could-end-its-aids-epidemic-by-end-of-2020-governor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/new-york-state-could-end-its-aids-epidemic-by-end-of-2020-governor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"New York state could end its AIDS epidemic by end of 2020, governor says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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New York could end the AIDS epidemic in the state by the end of next year,\u00a0the governor’s office said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week that new HIV diagnoses in the state dropped to 2,481 in 2018, a historic low.<\/div>\n
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It’s a victory for Cuomo’s “Ending the Epidemic” initiative, launched in 2014, which aimed to connect undiagnosed patients with proper care and prevent high-risk New Yorkers from contracting the virus, the governor’s office said.<\/div>\n
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In 2018, nearly 32,000 New Yorkers took pre-exposure prophylaxis, or\u00a0PrEP, a drug that can reduce users’ risk of getting HIV\u00a0from sex by nearly 99%. That’s a 32% increase in PrEP users from 2017, the office said.<\/div>\n
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The state has spent $20 million per year since 2015 to fund the initiative. This year, the state’s health department announced it will require all health insurers to\u00a0cover PrEP without co-pay\u00a0in 2020.<\/div>\n
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