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...
Low uptake of daily oral PrEP since US Food and Drug Administration approval and low medication adherence among users have stimulated the investigation of other modalities...
The overall rate of HIV among those in the study was 0.19 cases per 100 people per year, compared to 6.60 cases per 100 people per...
A man in Toronto, Canada was infected with HIV despite regularly taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)/Truvada. The man, who reported having sex with men, began to receive...
The issue raised by the study has implications on current responses to HIV, since “informal use would increase risk for inconsistent drug access, unmonitored restarts, use...
With PrEP about to be introduced in the Philippines, Michael David dela Cruz Tan notes that other prevention approaches should not be neglected – i.e. getting...
The PrEP-using individual contracted a multi-drug resistant strain of HIV, so that scientists concluded that “it is indeed possible for individuals who are adherent to PrEP...
