Family medicine clerkships in medical school were found to have varying degrees of curriculum dedicated to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) based on the expertise or judgement of the faculty. Educating ...

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) remains a significant global health challenge, affecting millions of people worldwide. While advancements in medical science have led to better management of the ...

What Is PrEP for HIV? PrEP is medicine that helps protect you from HIV. It stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis. “Pre” means before. You take the medicine before you think you might come into contact ...

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As many celebrated the recent decision to make HIV prevention medication free on most insurance plans, those who are uninsured felt the gap between them and their life-saving treatment widened further ...

About one-third of people using pre-exposure prophylaxis in states with shelter-in-place orders stopped taking the medication during the pandemic, a survey from the American Academy of HIV Medicine ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Quote card by Opinion. When I, a heterosexual woman, visited clinics in Ann Arbor, I heard nothing ...

A big part of Washington D.C.'s plan to get its HIV rate down is to get more uninfected people on PrEP, a two-medicine combination pill that's also sold under the brand name Truvada. When taken daily ...

About 60% of older Americans take a cholesterol-lowering statin to prevent heart attack, stroke, and other forms of cardiovascular disease. In contrast, only 25% of eligible, HIV-negative people take ...

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis is a prevention treatment designed for those who don’t have HIV but are at risk. (File pic) Last month, the Selangor mufti department opposed the dispensing of Pre-Exposure ...

The CasePREP Excellence in Mentoring Award was started in 2014. This award is given to an outstanding PREP mentor who has opened their laboratory to host PREP Scholars and has provided outstanding ...