Current experiences of accessing and using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional online survey, May to July 2019

The 2019 online pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) user survey in the United Kingdom was conducted to assess HIV PrEP access, and user characteristics. One in five respondents continued experiencing difficulties accessing PrEP; users were almost exclusively gay or bisexual men at high risk of HIV. The...

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Autores principales: O’Halloran, Charlotte, Owen, Greg, Croxford, Sara, Sims, Lee B, Gill, O Noel, Nutland, Will, Delpech, Valerie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6891944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31796157
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.48.1900693
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author O’Halloran, Charlotte
Owen, Greg
Croxford, Sara
Sims, Lee B
Gill, O Noel
Nutland, Will
Delpech, Valerie
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description The 2019 online pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) user survey in the United Kingdom was conducted to assess HIV PrEP access, and user characteristics. One in five respondents continued experiencing difficulties accessing PrEP; users were almost exclusively gay or bisexual men at high risk of HIV. The majority obtained PrEP through health service clinics and rated PrEP positively. High STI rates were reported among users. Renal and sexual health checks are advised for those sourcing PrEP privately.
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spelling pubmed-68919442019-12-12 Current experiences of accessing and using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional online survey, May to July 2019 O’Halloran, Charlotte Owen, Greg Croxford, Sara Sims, Lee B Gill, O Noel Nutland, Will Delpech, Valerie Euro Surveill Rapid Communication The 2019 online pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) user survey in the United Kingdom was conducted to assess HIV PrEP access, and user characteristics. One in five respondents continued experiencing difficulties accessing PrEP; users were almost exclusively gay or bisexual men at high risk of HIV. The majority obtained PrEP through health service clinics and rated PrEP positively. High STI rates were reported among users. Renal and sexual health checks are advised for those sourcing PrEP privately. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6891944/ /pubmed/31796157 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.48.1900693 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Rapid Communication
O’Halloran, Charlotte
Owen, Greg
Croxford, Sara
Sims, Lee B
Gill, O Noel
Nutland, Will
Delpech, Valerie
Current experiences of accessing and using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional online survey, May to July 2019
title Current experiences of accessing and using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional online survey, May to July 2019
title_full Current experiences of accessing and using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional online survey, May to July 2019
title_fullStr Current experiences of accessing and using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional online survey, May to July 2019
title_full_unstemmed Current experiences of accessing and using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional online survey, May to July 2019
title_short Current experiences of accessing and using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional online survey, May to July 2019
title_sort current experiences of accessing and using hiv pre-exposure prophylaxis (prep) in the united kingdom: a cross-sectional online survey, may to july 2019
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6891944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31796157
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.48.1900693
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