With the exorbitant cost of these drugs, there are huge public health and economic implications if most PrEP users begin to use the newer TAF/FTC pill...
While women make up nearly one in five of all new HIV infections, PrEP is largely underutilized by women who are at risk for infection and...
Barriers include knowledge gaps and attitudinal roadblocks among providers and systems, and the placement of responsibility on the patient to request the service - even though...
Majority of sex workers preferred to receive the HIV-prevention medication at family planning clinics or non-governmental drop-in centers - not at mobile health clinics near where...
The final risk prediction model included such variables as sex, race, living in a neighborhood with high HIV incidence, use of medications for erectile dysfunction, and...
88% of gay, bi males or trans members feel that they are (well)-informed about safer sex and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). But participants indicate that the...
Most countries in the region do not have policies in place to implement PrEP or HIV self-testing at scale. However, a handful of countries are taking...
Worldwide, there are only 300,000 people estimated to be taking PrEP. This is far too small a number to prevent 1.8 million new HIV infections.
Some see PrEP as a "social problem" since its users were seen as promiscuous, irresponsible, immoral and naïve. They also believe that uptake of PrEP is...
