Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): A Potential New Method for HIV Prevention

This pamphlet discusses pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medical term for giving medicines that fight HIV to people who are not infected before they are in contact with the virus, to try and prevent infection. The pamphlet explains that this approach is being studied in clinical trials with injection drug users in Asia; men who have sex with men in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Latin America; and heterosexual men and women in Africa. Results of the trials will be available in late 2009 and 2010. The pamphlet discusses how PREP will be made available for people who need and want it, whether risk-reducing behavior will be necessary, and how an advocate can participate.