{"id":18319,"date":"2026-01-28T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/transformative-hiv-prep-shot-slowly-overcomes-cost-hurdles\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:22:08","slug":"transformative-hiv-prep-shot-slowly-overcomes-cost-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/transformative-hiv-prep-shot-slowly-overcomes-cost-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Transformative&#8217; HIV PrEP shot slowly overcomes cost hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIV\/AIDS activists heralded the approval of a new twice-yearly pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication last year, but these celebrations were tempered by insurers&#8217; reluctance to cover its exorbitant cost.  In the months since, payers are coming around, and more patients have access to this landmark advancement.  In June&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5709406-hiv-prep-yeztugo-insurance-coverage\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIV\/AIDS activists heralded the approval of a new twice-yearly pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication last year, but these celebrations were tempered by insurers&#8217; reluctance to cover its exorbitant cost. In the months since, payers are coming around, and more patients have access to this landmark advancement. In June&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}