Attitudes Towards Treatment as Prevention Among PrEP-Experienced Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia.

ABSTRACT: The introduction of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has the potential to impact the attitudes gay and bisexual men (GBM) who consequently choose to take PrEP have towards treatment as prevention (TasP), and the extent to which they are willing to have condomless anal intercourse (CLAI) with an HIV-positive sexual partner who has an undetectable viral load (UVL). Using a cross-sectional sample from an observational cohort study conducted from August 2018 to March 2020, we examined the extent to which PrEP-experienced GBM are willing to have CLAI with a partner who has a UVL. Simple and multiple logistic regression models were used to identify associated variables. Of the 1386 participants included in the analyses, 79.0% believed in the effectiveness of TasP, and 55.3% were willing to ha

SUBMITTER: Dowell-Day A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10386911 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature