A huge can of worms. Updated.
Where should state health care end & personal responsibility begin, a question I reckon we'll all have to answer very shortly, the NHS in the UK has appealed & lost a court case over whether it's the health service that should provide the drug HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), this is a pre-exposure drug effective at preventing hiv-aids & the NHS estimate of cost is £20 million a year, quite how they've estimated how many would need to take it is another question
, there are as I see it two moral questions here -Firstly, should members of the public be expected to pay for someone else's irresponsible s*xual practises, it could be argued that £20m isn't that much & the NHS spends way more on people who overeat or smoke
Secondly, and this is the biggy, if you've decided the NHS should provide this drug free the next step will be - Why aren't we providing it for 3rd world countries where the risks are even higher, are there lives not worth as much as ours
The £20m would look like small change compared to the cost of providing this drug free to say just Africa, how much are we all prepared to pay for someone else's sex life
Update, news today, seems possible the above is possibly no longer relevant
no need of expensive pre-exposure drug when they may have the cure 
If so now the question will be who funds the drugs for the 35 million sufferers 
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