PrEP
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2012 as a form of HIV prevention and since then has been hotly debated, including calls for it to be made more accessible. But can PrEP also be a type of AIDS memorial? In his 2015 text AIDS Memorialization: A Biomedical Performance from Viral Dramaturgies, academic Marc Arthur suggests it can be. He makes the case that as much as it is a medical intervention, it is also a daily ritual done by HIV-negative people to consider (and remember) the history that led them to be able to distance themselves from the stigma and the virus.
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