Healthcare practitioner experiences and willingness to prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis in the US.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Less than 10 percent of the more than one million people vulnerable to HIV are using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Practitioners are critical to ensuring the delivery of PrEP across care settings. In this study, we target a group of prescribers focused on providing HIV care and seeking up-to-date information about HIV. We assessed their experiences prescribing PrEP, whether these experiences differed by clinical specialty, and examined associations between willingness to prescribe PrEP as a "best first step" and different hypothetical prescribing scenarios.

Setting and methods

Between March and May 2015, we circulated a paper survey to 954 participants ((652 of whom met our inclusion criteria of being independent prescribers and 519 of those (80%

SUBMITTER: Leech AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7470257 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature