Demi Lovato flashes her toned midriff in a crop top while pregnant Cardi B wears a semi-sheer fitted dress at first ever National PrEP Day in Los Angeles

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Demi Lovato flashed her toned midriff as she led the stars attending the first-ever National PrEP Day in Los Angeles on Thursday. 

The singer, 33, was joined at the event by Cardi B, 32, who is pregnant with her fourth child, and first with NFL star Stefon Diggs, as they work to raise awareness for HIV

Demi looked stylish in a graphic printed mesh top which she teamed with a zip front knee-length skirt and peep toe heels. 

Meanwhile, rapper Cardi showed off her growing baby bump in a semi-sheer fitted black dress. 

She added a pair of strappy heels and opted for a dramatic makeup look to complete her outfit. 

The event, launched by MISTR, aims to get 10,000 new people on PrEP, a medication that reduces the risk of HIV transmission. 

Demi Lovato flashes her toned midriff in a crop top while pregnant Cardi B wears a semi-sheer fitted dress at first ever National PrEP Day in Los Angeles

Demi Lovato flashed her toned midriff as she led the stars attending the first-ever National PrEP Day in Los Angeles on Thursday

The singer, 33, was joined at the event by Cardi B, 32, who is pregnant with her fourth child, and first with NFL star Stefon Diggs, as they work to raise awareness for HIV

The singer, 33, was joined at the event by Cardi B, 32, who is pregnant with her fourth child, and first with NFL star Stefon Diggs, as they work to raise awareness for HIV

Also in attendance was Elton John’s husband David Furnish who looked smart in a leather jacket and jeans. 

Elsewhere, Kim Petras joined her friend Tristan Schukraft for a photo and presenter NeNe Leakes smiled on the blue carpet. 

Demi recently opened up about the importance of queer spaces in a candid cover story interview with Paper Magazine.

In the pages of the publication, the star put on a rather sultry display by going braless in a very racy, sheer polka dot top.

Demi – who uses both she/her and they/them pronouns – talked about her connection to queerness and club culture as she came out as nonbinary in May 2021.

The singer said: ‘My connection with queer club culture is … I love going out with my friends.

‘love dancing, and I love doing that in queer spaces because it feels safe to me. If I were to go to a straight club, it just doesn’t feel as safe.

‘I feel there’s more danger. I feel like when I go to a queer space, I know that I’m with my friends. I’m know I’ll have a great time.’

Demi looked stylish in a graphic printed mesh top which she teamed with a zip front knee-length skirt and peep toe heels

Demi looked stylish in a graphic printed mesh top which she teamed with a zip front knee-length skirt and peep toe heels

Meanwhile, rapper Cardi showed off her growing baby bump in a semi-sheer fitted black dress

She added a pair of strappy heels and opted for a dramatic makeup look to complete her outfit

Meanwhile, rapper Cardi showed off her growing baby bump in a semi-sheer fitted black dress

Also in attendance was Elton John's husband David Furnish who looked smart in a leather jacket and jeans

Also in attendance was Elton John’s husband David Furnish who looked smart in a leather jacket and jeans

Elsewhere, Kim Petras joined her friend Tristan Schukraft for a photo

Elsewhere, Kim Petras joined her friend Tristan Schukraft for a photo

NeNe Leakes smiled on the blue carpet wearing a fitted leopard print dress

She opted for a bronzed makeup look

NeNe Leakes smiled on the blue carpet wearing a fitted leopard print dress

‘I just have always felt safer in queer spaces, and I think that’s because queer people have a way of living so authentically that it makes me feel like I can live authentically,’ she added.

The Cool for the Summer songstress married musician Jordan Lutes, 34, in May.

She also revealed in the interview that she turned to drink and drugs as a pre-teen because she had been ‘bullied and was looking for an escape.’

The Camp Rock alum told how she would regularly steal alcohol from her stepfather through her teenage years, before turning to cocaine when she was 17, which she said she ‘loved too much.’

Demi was sober for six years from the age of 20 to 26, but suffered a near-fatal overdose in 2018, causing her to be legally blind and brain damaged, after having a heart attack and three strokes while in hospital.

WHY MODERN MEDS MEAN HIV IS NOT A DEATH SENTENCE

Prior to 1996, HIV was a death sentence. Then, anti-retroviral therapy (ART) was made to suppress the virus. Now, a person can live as long a life as anyone else, despite having HIV.

Drugs were also invented to lower an HIV-negative person’s risk of contracting the virus by 99%. 

In recent years, research has shown that ART can suppress HIV to such an extent that it makes the virus untransmittable to sexual partners.

That has spurred a movement to downgrade the crime of infecting a person with HIV: it leaves the victim on life-long, costly medication, but it does not mean certain death.  

Here is more about the new life-saving and preventative drugs: 

1. Drugs for HIV-positive people 

It suppresses their viral load so the virus is untransmittable

In 1996, anti-retroviral therapy (ART) was discovered. 

The drug, a triple combination, turned HIV from a fatal diagnosis to a manageable chronic condition.  

It suppresses the virus, preventing it from developing into AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), which makes the body unable to withstand infections.

After six months of religiously taking the daily pill, it suppresses the virus to such an extent that it’s undetectable. 

And once a person’s viral load is undetectable, they cannot transmit HIV to anyone else, according to scores of studies including a decade-long study by the National Institutes of Health

Public health bodies around the world now acknowledge that U=U (undetectable equals untransmittable).

2. Drugs for HIV-negative people 

It is 99% effective at preventing HIV

PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) became available in 2012. 

This pill works like ‘the pill’ – it is taken daily and is 99 percent effective at preventing HIV infection (more effective than the contraceptive pill is at preventing pregnancy). 

It consists of two medicines (tenofovir dosproxil fumarate and emtricitabine). Those medicines can mount an immediate attack on any trace of HIV that enters the person’s bloodstream, before it is able to spread throughout the body.


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