"The pharmaceutical industry is profiting off a cycle of deceit, selling us the cure for the recklessness they are quietly enabling.".......
“The pharmaceutical industry is profiting off a cycle of deceit,
selling us the cure for the recklessness they are quietly enabling.”…….
Honored to share another expert piece from The Way She Came on Substack…….
Some of us read this post over and over again!
Education. Information. Self-Preservation
What you are about to read comes from lived experience, clinical reality, and a level of honesty that is becoming harder to find in public spaces. It speaks to what many women—especially Black women—are quietly navigating, questioning, and carrying without enough clear, grounded information to support them.
The post on Substack comes from a nurse who has lived and worked through the height of the AIDS crisis and is now witnessing a new shift—one that many people are not talking about plainly.
This thought-warming piece breaks down what is happening at the intersection of modern HIV prevention, changing sexual behavior, and the real-life risks facing women—especially Black women.
It speaks to:
• how PrEP, while powerful, is being misunderstood and over-relied on
• how condom use is quietly declining
• how the message of “undetectable = untransmittable” is sometimes being used in ways that remove women’s ability to make informed choices
• how deception, silence, and entitlement continue to place women at risk
• and why Black women are still disproportionately impacted, often within relationships that are assumed to be safe
It does not deal in surface-level reassurance.
It deals in what is being seen, lived, and experienced in real time.
This is not about stigmatizing people. This is about health care.
Anytime Black women encounter health care we owe it to ourselves to ask more questions and make sure that we understand.
That we are very clear about the risks.
That we understand our responsibility.
The answers we are receiving to our questions are grounded in integrity and concern for our health, safety, and well-being.
Gratitude and appreciation to the Black Femicide Prevention Coalition for sharing this valuable information on Facebook.