Behind the Madrid black market that sells medicines to prevent and treat HIV: bureaucracy, discrimination and waiting lists

"I had enough to wait on the waiting list, I decided to buy PrEP [pre-exposure prophylaxis that prevents HIV infection] over the internet," says Juan,...

The public health waiting lists in the Community of Madrid now exceed one million people, and since the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, took office for the first time in 2019, the number has almost doubled. Before the arrival of the 'popular' baroness to the regional government, although with predecessors of the same political sign, the number of people on the waiting list stood at 623,490. At the end of Ayuso's first le…