Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Perspectives, Sociodemographic Characteristics, and HIV Risk Profiles of Cisgender Women Seeking and Initiating PrEP in a US Demonstration Project.

ABSTRACT: Little information is known about the cisgender women who seek and initiate pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention in the United States. Adherence Enhancement Guided by Individualized Texting and Drug Levels was a 48-week single-arm open-label demonstration study of daily oral tenofovir disoproxil fumaratel emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) in cisgender women ≥ 18 years old at risk for HIV. Participants were surveyed at screening and enrollment about sociodemographics, HIV risk perception and behaviors, and PrEP perspectives and aggregated into three risk groups according to HIV sexual risk behavior: being in a serodiscordant partnership (SD), engaging in sex work (SW), and having partners with unknown HIV status at risk for HIV (UP). One hundred sixty-seven women presented for screening

SUBMITTER: Blumenthal J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8905235 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature