Pre-exposure HIV Prophylaxis Works
Further hope for prevention of transmission as the search for a cure continues.
Grulich and colleagues1 in Australia found that targeted pre-exposure prophylaxis produces a rapid decline in HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men. Scroll through the slides for the details of the study and the take-home points for clinicians.
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MSM, men who have sex with men; PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis.
MSM, men who have sex with men; PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis.
MSM, men who have sex with men; PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis.
Reference
1. Grulich AE, Guy R, Amin J, et al; Expanded PrEP Implementation in Communities New South Wales (EPIC-NSW) research group. Population-level effectiveness of rapid, targeted, high-coverage roll-out of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in men who have sex with men: the EPIC-NSW prospective cohort study. Lancet HIV. 2018 Oct 17. pii: S2352-3018(18)30215-7. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(18)30215-7. [Epub ahead of print]
