According to preliminary data released by the CDC in October, there was an increase in PrEP prescriptions from 2019 to 2022, but "severe and widening inequities persist." The CDC also noted that ...

Public health messaging that drives stigma around pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medication that can reduce HIV risk by up to 99%, appears to play a role in uptake of the medication. While the ...

On top of offering various PrEP and PEP medications to students, Student Health expanded its HIV prevention medications this semester with lenacapavir, a twice-per-year injection the Food and Drug ...

A national health task force’s sterling new endorsement of a long-acting injectable medication for use as HIV prevention will require health insurers to begin covering the pricey drug by 2025. Such ...

The White House in Washington is decorated with a red ribbon memorializing World AIDS Day Dec. 1, 2020. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters) Could providing access to a drug that prevents H.I.V.

For the first time, an HIV PrEP drug candidate has shown zero infections in a phase 3 trial. The result came from the PURPOSE 1 trial evaluating Gilead Sciences’ twice-yearly, subcutaneous lenacapavir ...

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Latonia Wilkins knows she needs to be on PrEP due to her non-monogamous lifestyle. But the 52-year-old Atlanta ...

After nearly a decade of working as an advocate for HIV and AIDS treatment, Michael Chancley said he came to a sobering realization. “Seeing that people who look like me, who hang out at the same ...

So, the 38-year-old said, he started using PrEP, which stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis, a medication that decreases a person’s risk of getting HIV from sex or injection drug use by about 99% when ...