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The Future of HIV Biomedical Prevention Research

Recent news about HIV biomedical prevention research has been a mixed bag: very encouraging results from long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) trials, but a disappointing lack of significant protection achieved with experimental HIV vaccines. Furthermore, the entire research effort has had to wrestle with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

What About Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP)? PEP Implementation in the South

This brief provides an overview of HIV Post-exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) in the southern United States (“the South”). The goal is to provide an overview of prevention with PEP to drive collective action between: Jurisdictional and local public health departments, community-based organizations (CBOs), and community health clinics, to increase and improve prevention with PEP.