Providers have mixed feelings about prescribing HIV prevention
Monday, April 6, 2015 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
People at substantial ongoing risk for HIV have a prevention option in addition to practicing safer sex: pre-exposure prophylaxis. Proactively taking a regimen of an HIV antiviral medication helps prevent HIV from establishing itself in the body. But for patients and providers, the US Public Health Service's PrEP guidelines may still be too well-kept a secret. Researchers found many US health care providers hesitate to prescribe PrEP to some patients.