توفير الحكومة دواء Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) المجتمع الميم (LGBT) : دراسة تحليلية شرعية

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is a prophylactic drug for individuals at risk of contracting HIV, commonly referred to as HIV/AIDS. PrEP has been found to be highly effective in reducing the risk of HIV infection in clinical trials. In late 2022, the Malaysian Ministry of Health once again issued a statement, via the Minister of Health, announcing a trial project to administer PrEP in select hospitals as a government effort to make the drug more accessible to the public. The announcement of this project has generated controversy among scholars, intellectuals, and politicians regarding its permissibility in Islam, given that the project aims to benefit individuals from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Although there is no doubt about the legal permissibility of PrEP, given its preventive function against infectious diseases, this article seeks to explore whether PrEP may serve as a pretext for obscenity and necessitate legal intervention. The aim of this research is to clarify the legal implications of the government's decision to offer PrEP to individuals at risk of infectious diseases by examining whether PrEP serves as a justification for obscenity that requires legal intervention. To achieve this objective, the study adopts a descriptive, analytical, and inductive approach, which yields several findings, the most significant of which is that while PrEP may prevent infectious diseases, which are often associated with illicit sexual activity, it does not serve as a pretext for obscenity. Therefore, the research contends that there is no objection to providing PrEP, even to members of the LGBT community. However, the government must play a more active role, as briefly outlined in this article, in addressing the LGBT phenomenon, which is incompatible with Malaysian law.