Providers PrEP: Identifying Primary Health care Providers' Biases as Barriers to Provision of Equitable PrEP Services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite their disparately high HIV incidence and voiced willingness to use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), Black cisgender women's knowledge and uptake of PrEP are low, especially relative to White cisgender women and men who have sex with men. Mounting evidence demonstrates that health care provider recommendations are a critical factor in women's awareness, willingness, and ability to uptake PrEP. Health care providers may make clinical judgments about who is (not) a good candidate for PrEP based on unconscious and conscious stereotypes and prejudice.

Setting

We conducted an online experiment among N = 160 health care providers with prescribing privileges in the 48 HIV hotspot counties.

Method

Providers received 1 of 4 vignettes about a PrEP eligible wom

SUBMITTER: Hull SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8577287 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature