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The PrEPWatch Resource Database offers a wide range of material on the status of PrEP as an option for biomedical HIV prevention around the world. Search this database to find step-by-step guidance for rolling out PrEP, summaries of the research to date on safety, efficacy and implementation, tools to assist planning and roll out, country updates on PrEP policy and access, and lessons learned from those efforts.

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4 October 2024

Access Workbook for Cabotegravir for PrEP, Dapivirine Vaginal Ring, and Lenacapavir for PrEP

This workbook, compiled by the Global Fund, contains key access information relating to cabotegravir (CAB) for PrEP, the dapivirine vaginal ring (DVR), and lenacapavir (LEN) for PrEP for all lower and middle income countries, including eligibility for Global Fund support, PEPFAR support status, regulatory status of CAB for PrEP and the DVR, access to non-profit…

Normative Guidance/Policies

Spreadsheet
1 October 2024

PrEP Ring Instructional Video

The PrEP Ring is a long-acting vaginal ring that a woman can use to reduce the risk of HIV transmission during vaginal sex. Women urgently need options for HIV prevention, so that they can choose that best meets their needs and circumstances. Please click on the video link(s) below to see How to Use the…

Normative Guidance/Policies

13 September 2024

We Choose: Adolescent girls and young women’s choice for an HIV prevention product in a cross-over randomized clinical trial conducted in South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe

This article from PLOS One describes decision-making and product choice amongst adolescent girls and young women in South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe when given a choice between oral PrEP and the dapivirine vaginal ring as part of the REACH crossover study.

Research

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6 September 2024

HIV Self-Testing and PrEP: Opportunities for scale-up

This brief addresses common misconceptions about the use of HIV self-testing (HIVST) for PrEP initiation and continuation while highlighting the opportunities that HIVST can provide in order to support further scale-up of this important self-care option.

Normative Guidance/Policies, Research, Service Delivery, Testing

Document
2 September 2024

PrEP Method Switching: Will it Yield Greater Coverage of HIV Protection? Applying Lessons Learned from Family Planning to Guide Future Research in the Context of PrEP Choice

This review from Current HIV/AIDS Reports draws parallels between HIV prevention and family planning by summarizing how method choice and product switching affected contraceptive coverage globally, synthesizes what is known about PrEP product switching, and outlines evidence gaps to help guide future research on PrEP switching in the context of choice.

Research

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15 August 2024

WHO Global PrEP Network – Destination Prevention: New Guidance for PrEP and PEP

This 90-minute webinar is intended for communities, providers, policy makers and advocates for PrEP, PEP and HIV prevention. We will provide an overview of the key takeaways and new guidance from newly released WHO PrEP Implementation Tool: Provider Module for Oral and Long Acting PrEP and the 2024 Guidelines on HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis. We will…

Normative Guidance/Policies, Service Delivery

Event
16 July 2024

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Eastern and Southern Africa: The latest insights

Eastern and southern Africa (ESA) is the world’s most heavily HIV-impacted region, with adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) disproportionately affected. To support the scale-up of PrEP amongst AGYW in ESA, in September 2021 UNICEF and partners released the implementation brief “Improving the Quality of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Implementation for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in…

Research, Service Delivery

Document
7 June 2024

Self-reported Removal and Expulsion of the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring: Qualitative reports from female ring users and their male partners in the Ring Study (IPM 027)

This article from BMC Public Health explores participants’ and their male partners’ discussions on accidental/purposeful vaginal ring removals during The Ring Study (IPM-027 clinical trial of the one month dapvirine vaginal ring).

Research

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28 May 2024

MOSAIC (Maximizing Options to Advance Informed Choice for HIV Prevention)

Short introduction to MOSAIC, a project working across multiple countries to implement user-centered research and research translation efforts to identify, understand, and remove barriers to new product introduction, access, and use; coordinate and provide technical assistance to global, national, and subnational stakeholders to expedite product launch and scale-up; and strengthen the capacity of a wide…

Research

Document
23 May 2024

Access, Adherence, and Acute HIV Infections: A characterization of seroconversion with PrEP in Eswatini

This poster, presented at the INTEREST conference in Cotonou, Benin in 2024, outlines characteristics of seroconversions by women using oral PrEP or the dapivirine vaginal ring in Eswatini.

Research

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