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. 2021 Aug;33(4):325-344.
doi: 10.1521/aeap.2021.33.4.325.

Primary Care Providers' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs About HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): Informing Network-Based Interventions

Erik D Storholm  1   2 , Allison J Ober  2 , Matthew L Mizel  2 , Luke Matthews  2 , Matthew Sargent  2 , Ivy Todd  2 , Deborah Zajdman  2 , Hank Green  2   3
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Primary Care Providers' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs About HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): Informing Network-Based Interventions

Erik D Storholm et al. AIDS Educ Prev. 2021 Aug.

Abstract

Increasing access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in primary care settings for patients who may be at risk for HIV could help to increase PrEP uptake, which has remained low among certain key risk populations. The current study conducted interviews with primary care providers identified from national claims data as having either high or low likelihood of serving PrEP-eligible patients based on their prescribing practices for other sexually transmitted infections. The study yielded important information about primary care providers' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about PrEP, as well as the barriers and facilitators to prescribing PrEP. Key recommendations for a provider-focused intervention to increase PrEP prescribing among primary care providers, including increasing patient education to increase demand from providers, enhancing provider education, leveraging technology, and instituting standardized sexual health checks, are provided with the goal of informing network-based interventions.

Keywords: HIV; implementation; network intervention; pre-exposure prophylaxis; primary care.

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Conflict of Interest: All authors declare that no conflicts of interest to declare that are relevant to the content of this article. Ethical Approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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