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Employers in Texas no longer required to cover HIV prevention drugs

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A federal judge in Texas stated that employers should not be forced to cover PrEP medication if it violates the company’s religious beliefs.

The ruling concluded that providing the drugs makes company owners “complicit in facilitating homosexual behaviour”. US district judge Reed O’Connor made the judgement on 7 September.

He ruled in favour of Braidwood Management, a Christian-owned company based in Texas, which argued it was not required to cover the costs of two PrEP drugs, Truvada and Descovy.

Legal experts, such as Chris Geidner, noted that O’Connor has a history of “anti-LGBTQ rulings, both as to marriage and Title IX’s sex discrimination ban,” he explained in a Twitter thread following the ruling.

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