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Post-exposure prophylaxis involves taking a 28-day course of anti-HIV drugs, after possible exposure to HIV. It may be used by healthcare workers (occupational PEP) or after sex (post-exposure prophylaxis after sexual exposure, PEPSE, also known as non-occupational PEP or nPEP).

PEP

People need pathways from PEP to PrEP – and back again

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5 March 2024
PEP

Making PEP available in the community could reduce new HIV cases in Africa by 31%

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17 October 2023
PrEP programmes & uptake

Huge increase in PrEP uptake when services offer choice and flexibility, African studies show

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28 February 2023
PEP

Home packs cut time to start HIV ‘morning after pill’ by two-thirds

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26 May 2022
PEP

Study shows Biktarvy for PEP has fewer side effects and better completion rates

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16 March 2022
Violence

Sexual violence against women and girls in Uganda increased during the COVID-19 pandemic

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18 July 2021
PEP

HIV 'morning-after pill' prescriptions have fallen sixfold during the lockdown

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29 May 2020
Transmission & prevention

Top 10 HIV prevention stories from CROI 2020

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2 April 2020
PEP

New PEP studies revive interest in post-exposure prevention

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11 March 2020
PEP

Two PEP doses spaced a week apart protect monkeys from injected HIV; one dose might work in humans

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11 March 2020
PEP

Research supports offering PEP in advance in case of risk

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27 December 2019
PrEP policies & guidelines

US doctors’ organisation endorses event-based PrEP for the first time

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19 September 2018
PrEP programmes & uptake

Up to a quarter of HIV-negative gay men attending three English clinics used PrEP in the last year

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13 November 2017
PrEP programmes & uptake

High HIV incidence from non-primary partners and low PEP and PrEP use seen in PARTNER study

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8 November 2017
Chemsex & recreational drug use

London clinic survey shows impact of chemsex on condom and PEP use

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27 October 2015
Treatment guidelines

With EACS release, all international HIV treatment guidelines agree on when to start – for the first time since 2006

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26 October 2015
PEP

HIV PEP with emtricitabine/tenofovir/rilpivirine has excellent completion and adherence rates

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17 July 2015
How HIV works

Acute HIV infection may present in many ways – sometimes as a serious illness

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27 May 2015
PrEP

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) stops 86% of HIV infections in PROUD study

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24 February 2015
PrEP

Gay men are better at predicting when they won’t have sex than when they will

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12 January 2015
Behaviour change interventions

Learning about additional HIV prevention methods doesn’t undermine gay men’s intentions to use condoms

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15 September 2014
PEP

Meta-analysis: only half the people who start PEP complete the course

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23 July 2014
Epidemiology & behaviour

Revisiting the safety spectrum: how gay men fall into different 'risk classes' for HIV

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7 October 2013
HIV prevention policy

Knowledge gaps, problems accessing services for MSM in several countries of eastern and south-eastern Europe

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27 June 2013