"PrEPping" women's healthcare providers: motivational interviewing to support ending the HIV epidemic.

ABSTRACT: In 2018, cisgender women accounted for nearly 20% of new HIV infections, with women of color disproportionately affected. HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake, adherence, and persistence are paramount to ending the HIV epidemic, but current strategies to promote it have not improved uptake among women. Alternatively, pre-exposure prophylaxis marketing and implementation have traditionally targeted men who have sex with men and transwomen. Women feel most comfortable turning to their primary care and reproductive health providers for HIV and pre-exposure prophylaxis counseling, but prescribing is the lowest among these providers. Thus, reframing pre-exposure prophylaxis counseling and education strategies is crucial to better engage providers and patients. Motivational interviewing is a pers

SUBMITTER: Rager TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11283574 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature