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AWARENESS AND WILLINGNESS TO USE PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS (PREP) AMONG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN AND TRANSGENDER WOMEN IN BRAZIL
Hoagland, Brenda Regina de Siqueira et al. | Date Issued: 2017
Author
Hoagland, Brenda Regina de Siqueira
De Boni, Raquel B.
Moreira, Ronaldo I.
Madruga, José Valdez Ramalho
Kallas, Esper Georges
Goulart, Silvia Pereira
Cerqueira, Natalia
Torres, Thiago Silva
Luz, Paula Mendes
Fernandes, Nilo Martinez
Liu, Albert Y.
Grinsztejn, Beatriz
Veloso,Valdiléa G.
Affilliation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Centro de Referência e Treinamento em DST/AIDS. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Centro de Referência e Treinamento em DST/AIDS. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Bridge HIV, San Francisco Department of Public Health. San Francisco, CA, USA.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
Antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is recommended to prevent HIV infection among high-risk men who have sex with men (MSM) though not available in Brazil where the HIV epidemic persists unabated in this group. This cross-sectional study describes PrEP awareness and willingness and associated factors among MSM and transvestite/transgender women (trans women) pre-screened for the PrEP Brasil study. Awareness was reported by 61.3 % of the participants and was associated with age, education, site, study period and prior HIV testing. Most participants (82.1 %) were willing to use PrEP, which was associated with site, study period, number of male condomless anal sexual partners and anal sex with HIV positive/unknown partners. PrEP information is need among young and less educated individuals. Willingness to use PrEP was high and future studies should be conducted to confirm PrEP acceptability and the characteristics of the population who chose to adopt this intervention.
Keywords
Pre-exposure prophylaxis
HIV prevention
MSM
Transvestite
Transgender women
Awareness
Willingness
 
DeCS
Awareness
Transgender Persons
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
Transvestism
HIV
 
Publisher
Springer
Citation
HOAGLAND, Brenda Regina de Siqueira et al. Awareness and willingness to use Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Brazil. AIDS Behavior, v. 21, p.1278–1287, 2017.
DOI
10.1007/s10461-016-1516-5
ISSN
1090-7165