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By: Jayson Celeste You possibly might have heard about Pre-exposure Propahylaxis (PrEP) by now. It definitely has been creating some buzz in certain circles:  in fact it was mentioned in the first episode of season two of the series, “How to Get Away with Murder”. However, if it's your first time to hear of PrEP and what it means, then we invite you to read on. So what is PrEP? PrEP has been described as a promising biomedical intervention for HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) infection, and Truvada (combination of tenofovir and emtricitabine) is currently the most common type of medicine used for PreP. Prescription is started before possible exposure to HIV, hence the name “pre-exposure”. It's pretty much like a contraceptive pill: as contraceptives keep the person taking it from getting pregnant unintentionally, PrEP keeps HIV infections at bay. Also, another important thing to note that is common to both contraceptives and PrEP is that their effectivity only depends on ...

by Jay Fernando (Note: The opinions expressed in this review do not necessarily reflect the views of LoveYourself.) “We must love one another or die.”   W.H. Auden hated that line and struck it out of the poem he wrote where the phrase The Normal Heart came from. But the line remained on various published versions of the poem and these words must have resonated with Larry Kramer, playwright of The Normal Heart when he wrote that powerful exchange between Ned Weeks and his brother Ben as Ned confronted him about his homophobia:      BEN: Agreeing that you were born just the same as I was born isn't gonna save your dying friends.      NED: That is exactly what is going to save my dying friends! This may be debated upon – that it is an incessant belief that homosexuality is a crime and a disease that is killing us off and not HIV – is only one among the various points made by the play, arguments that could not be resolved overnight .  It wasn't abou...