New ways to deliver drugs that prevent infection with HIV are out there, but many people still prefer the standard daily PrEP pill, a new study shows.
“The oral pill is very efficacious when people take it every day, and it really has the potential to curbepidemic,” said Pablo Kokay Valente, an assistant professor of allied health sciences in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources at the University of Connecticut. “However, a lot of people who could benefit from PrEP are not accessing it.”
Valente studied this in young men who have sex with men, one of the target populations for the intervention, and he was surprised by the preference for the daily oral PrEP. The study included a variety of products that are already on the market, such as the daily oral pill, an on-demand oral pill that is taken before and after sexual intercourse, and the recently approved injection patients receive every two months.
Younger people and people who are uninsured were less likely to prefer injectable or implant forms because of cost and concerns about frequent visits.“That's concerning, because part of the excitement around the new options is that they would reach people who are not being reached by current products,” Valente said. “Understanding preferences is important because we need to create interventions that connect people to their preferred delivery method.
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