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Estimating the 'PrEP Gap': how implementation and access to PrEP differ between countries in Europe and Central Asia in 2019.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Hayes, Rosalie 
Schmidt, Axel J 
Pharris, Anastasia 
Azad, Yusef 
Brown, Alison E 

Abstract

In 2019, only 14 European and Central Asian countries provided reimbursed HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Using EMIS-2017 data, we present the difference between self-reported use and expressed need for PrEP in individual countries and the European Union (EU). We estimate that 500,000 men who have sex with men in the EU cannot access PrEP, although they would be very likely to use it. PrEP's potential to eliminate HIV is currently unrealised by national healthcare systems.

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Anti-HIV Agents, Asia, Delivery of Health Care, Europe, Health Services Accessibility, HIV Infections, Homosexuality, Male, Humans, Male, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, Europe and Central Asia, European Union, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Men who have sex with Men (MSM), Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)

Journal Title

Euro Surveill

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Journal ISSN

1025-496X
1560-7917

Volume Title

24

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)