The Community PrEP Study: a randomized control trial leveraging community-based platforms to improve access and adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa-study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

HIV incidence among South African adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) remains high, but could be reduced by highly effective pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Unfortunately, AGYW report significant barriers to clinic-based sexual and reproductive health services. Even when AGYW access PrEP as an HIV prevention method, poor prevention-effective use was a serious barrier to achieving its optimal HIV prevention benefits. Determining the acceptability and feasibility of community-based platforms to increase AGYW's access to PrEP, and evaluating behavioural interventions to improve prevention-effective use of PrEP are needed.

Methods

We propose a mixed-methods study among AGYW aged 16-25 years in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. In the first component, a cross-s

SUBMITTER: Medina-Marino A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8314507 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature