Low Knowledge of HIV PrEP Within a Midwestern US Cohort of Persons who Inject Drugs

We interviewed persons who inject drugs (PWID) to understand perceptions of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection. Knowledge of PrEP was poor. Patients felt that PrEP was for sexual intercourse rather than injection drug use, and PWID managed on medications for opioid use disorder...

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Autores principales: Sayood, Sena, Marks, Laura R, Patel, Rupa, Nolan, Nathanial S, Liang, Stephen Y, Durkin, Michael J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8714363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34988248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab541
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author Sayood, Sena
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Patel, Rupa
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description We interviewed persons who inject drugs (PWID) to understand perceptions of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection. Knowledge of PrEP was poor. Patients felt that PrEP was for sexual intercourse rather than injection drug use, and PWID managed on medications for opioid use disorder felt that they had no need for PrEP.
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spelling pubmed-87143632022-01-04 Low Knowledge of HIV PrEP Within a Midwestern US Cohort of Persons who Inject Drugs Sayood, Sena Marks, Laura R Patel, Rupa Nolan, Nathanial S Liang, Stephen Y Durkin, Michael J Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports We interviewed persons who inject drugs (PWID) to understand perceptions of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection. Knowledge of PrEP was poor. Patients felt that PrEP was for sexual intercourse rather than injection drug use, and PWID managed on medications for opioid use disorder felt that they had no need for PrEP. Oxford University Press 2021-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8714363/ /pubmed/34988248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab541 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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