On Wednesday, Los Angeles County supervisors voted to work towards a plan to get the controversial HIV-prevention drug Truvada into the hands of at-risk LA residents. The public health department now has 30 days to develop a way to disseminate the drug and educate people who are at high risk of contracting the disease, such as poor black and Hispanic men who have sex with men. The Los Angeles Times reports that almost 60,000 people are living with HIV in the county and roughly 1,850 become infected annually. The pill can reduce the risk of infection by as much as 92 percent but remains controversial, as our documentary on the drug above found.

"[The Truvada prevention method] PrEP is not a silver bullet, it's not a panacea, but it is another tool that we need to offer our county residents who are at high risk of contracting HIV," said LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, according to the Times.

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