PrEP is a disruptive innovation in the HIV prevention dialogue, introducing choice and the possibility for shared decision-making. We have the opportunity to develop a prevention approach responsive to women?s reproductive and sexual preferences and values across a lifetime. Let?s take advantage of it.
One in four U.S. women have experienced gender based violence. Among women living with HIV, one in two has experienced intimate partner violence, and more than 60% have been sexually abused – 5 times the rate of the general female population.
In 1983 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a ban on sperm donation from ?any men who have had sex with another man in the preceding five years? to prevent HIV transmission to a surrogate or gestational carrier.
Three existing initiatives, New York State?s End AIDS NY 2020, Washington State?s End AIDS Washington, and the City of San Francisco?s Getting to Zero SF, gathered in conversation to discuss similarities and differences in their approaches as well as spark dialogue with other jurisdictions contemplating their own initiatives. Here is some of what was discovered.
?PrEP is something revolutionary for everyone, but essential for gay and bisexual youth; so many [young people] are exposed to STIs and HIV simply due to lack of information about PrEP. ?A pill a day will keep HIV away?, I like to tell my friends.”