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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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6 February 2024

Impact of HIV Self-testing for Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Scale-up on Drug Resistance and HIV Outcomes in Western Kenya: A modelling study

This article from The Lancet HIV describes the results of a modelling exercise to evaluate the impact of HIV self-testing on oral PrEP scale-up and HIV drug resistance.

Research

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6 February 2024

Global Mapping of PrEP Ring Implementation Research and Programmatic Pilots

This analysis provides an overview of the 13 introduction studies that include the PrEP ring as one of the PrEP products under investigation alongside oral PrEP and/or CAB for PrEP as of November 2023. All of the PrEP ring studies are conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa and focus primarily on adolescent girls and young women (AGYW)…

Research

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31 January 2024

Creating Allies: Qualitative exploration of young women’s preferences for PrEP methods and parents’ role in PrEP uptake and user support in urban and rural Zambia

This article from BMC Women’s Health describes the results of a qualitative study to learn about PrEP method preferences amongst adolescent girls and young women and their parents in Zambia.

Research, Service Delivery

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22 January 2024

Factors Influencing the Uptake of a Mono-PrEP Implant for the Prevention of HIV: Males’ perspectives from three South African provinces

This article from PLOS One describes the results of a study which aimed to estimate the potential uptake of a mono-PrEP implant and the factors influencing uptake among males in South Africa. The study also examined messaging and demand creation tactics that males perceive will improve HIV prevention uptake.

Demand Creation/Marketing, Research

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22 January 2024

Breaking Down Relationship Barriers to Increase PrEP Uptake and Adherence among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya: Safety and preliminary effectiveness results from a pilot cluster-randomized trial

This article from Journal of the International AIDS Society describes the impact of the Tu’Washindi intervention, which aimed to increase PrEP use by addressing relationship- and violence-related barriers among adolescent girls and young women enrolled in the DREAMS Initiative in Siaya County, Kenya.

Demand Creation/Marketing, Research, Service Delivery

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22 January 2024

A Community-based Dynamic Choice Model for HIV Prevention Improves PrEP and PEP Coverage in Rural Uganda and Kenya: A cluster randomized trial

This article from Journal of the International AIDS Society describes the effect of a dynamic choice model for HIV prevention, delivered by community health workers with clinician support, on the use of biomedical prevention (including PrEP and PEP) amongst persons at risk of HIV in rural Kenya and Uganda. This research was undertaken as part…

Research, Service Delivery

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22 December 2023

Online Course: Unlocking the Potential of Implementation Science and Good Participatory Practices

This online course is designed specifically for implementation research teams, advocates, policy-makers, and others who are working in the field of HIV prevention. The three one-hour online lessons cover a range of ‘foundational’ and ‘elective’ topics, including the key concepts and goals of implementation research in the context of HIV prevention and new product introduction.…

Community/Advocacy, Research

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13 December 2023

Value Chain Situation Analyses

Situation analyses are an initial step in supporting national planning for the introduction and scale-up of PrEP methods. These tools can be used by policymakers or others supporting policy development for new PrEP methods (e.g., nongovernmental organizations, donors) to conduct an analysis to assess the existing situation for the introduction of the new product. Value…

Normative Guidance/Policies, Research

4 December 2023

Let Communities Lead

This report by UNAIDS, released for World AIDS Day 2023, demonstrates the critical role communities play, and how underfunding and harmful barriers are holding back their lifesaving work and obstructing the end of AIDS.

Community/Advocacy, Research, Service Delivery

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4 December 2023

The Lancet HIV- Special Issue on PrEP

The December 2023 issue of The Lancet HIV contains numerous articles featuring the latest research and commentaries on PrEP, including oral PrEP, injectable CAB for PrEP, the dapirivine vaginal ring, and PEP.

Research

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