Primary Care Physicians’ Willingness to Prescribe HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for People who Inject Drugs

Primary Care Physicians’ Willingness to Prescribe HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for People who Inject Drugs

Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV (PrEP) is recommended for people who inject drugs (PWID). Despite their central role in disease prevention, willingness to prescribe PrEP to PWID among primary care physicians (PCPs) is largely understudied. We conducted an online survey (April–May 2015) of members o...

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Veröffentlicht in:AIDS and behavior 2017-04, Vol.21 (4), p.1025-1033
Hauptverfasser: Edelman, E. Jennifer, Moore, Brent A., Calabrese, Sarah K., Berkenblit, Gail, Cunningham, Chinazo, Patel, Viraj, Phillips, Karran, Tetrault, Jeanette M., Shah, Minesh, Fiellin, David A., Blackstock, Oni
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Adult
AIDS
Anti-HIV Agents - administration & dosage
Attitude of Health Personnel
Disease prevention
Drug abuse
Female
Health care
Health Care Surveys
Health Psychology
Health risks
Health Services Needs and Demand - statistics & numerical data
HIV
HIV Infections - epidemiology
HIV Infections - prevention & control
HIV Infections - psychology
HIV Infections - transmission
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Infectious Diseases
Internet
Lentivirus
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Odds Ratio
Original Paper
Patients
Physicians
Physicians, Primary Care - psychology
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis - methods
Prevention
Preventive medicine
Primary care
Prophylaxis
Public Health
Retroviridae
Risk groups
Substance Abuse, Intravenous - complications
Substance Abuse, Intravenous - epidemiology
United States
Unsafe Sex - psychology
Unsafe Sex - statistics & numerical data
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Zusammenfassung:Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV (PrEP) is recommended for people who inject drugs (PWID). Despite their central role in disease prevention, willingness to prescribe PrEP to PWID among primary care physicians (PCPs) is largely understudied. We conducted an online survey (April–May 2015) of members of a society for academic general internists regarding PrEP. Among 250 respondents, 74% (n = 185) of PCPs reported high willingness to prescribe PrEP to PWID. PCPs were more likely to report high willingness to prescribe PrEP to all other HIV risk groups (p’s 
ISSN:1090-7165
1573-3254
DOI:10.1007/s10461-016-1612-6