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Plan 4 PrEP: Step 5: Facility Readiness Assessment

Service Delivery

Health Care Providers as Agents of Change: Integrating PrEP with other sexual and reproductive health services for adolescent girls and young women

Providing integrated HIV PrEP and sexual reproductive health (SRH) care is difficult for many healthcare providers. They face many barriers. Successul integration will require interation and adaptation. O'Malley et al. investigate the structural and motivational barriers that healthcare providers face in providing integrated care to adolescent girls and young women (AGYW).

Research, Service Delivery

A community-based mobile clinic model delivering PrEP for HIV prevention to adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa

This study explores the feasibility and acceptability of providing PrEP to adolescent girls and young women via a community-based mobile health clinic known as the Tutu Teen Truck in Cape Town, South Africa

Research, Service Delivery

Comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy and pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention in South Africa

This study compares the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of providing antiretroviral therapy vs PrEP in South Africa

Financing & Costing

Estimating the cost-effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis to reduce HIV-1 and HSV-2 incidence in HIV-serodiscordant couples in South Africa

This study estimates the cost-effectiveness of daily oral PrEP, with a protective effect against the herpes simplex virus as well as HIV, among HIV serodifferent couples in South Africa

Financing & Costing

Dapivirine Vaginal Ring for HIV Prevention: Modeling health outcomes, drug resistance and cost‐effectiveness

This paper evaluates the potential epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness of dapivirine vaginal ring PrEP among 22- to 45-year-old women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Financing & Costing, Research

Understanding Service Providers’ Knowledge of Oral PrEP and Attitudes Toward Provisionto Populations at Substantial HIV Risk in South Africa

This poster describes the results of a cross-sectional qualitative study, interviewing providers at public, private, and nongovernmental health facilities in South Africa offering PrEP to explore providers’ attitudes toward and experiences delivering PrEP to AGYW.

Research, Service Delivery

Creating demand for the Dapivirine vaginal ring

This presentation outlines lessons learned from ring clinical trials and oral PrEP programs in Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe that can be applied to the development of demand creation strategies.

Demand Creation/Marketing

Microbicide Trials Network-043 – B-PROTECTED Study

Microbicide Trials Network-043, or B-PROTECTED, is a Phase IIIb open-label study that evaluated the safety and acceptability of the monthly dapivirine ring and daily oral PrEP in women who are breastfeeding, a time of heightened vulnerability for acquiring HIV.

Research

Use of the Dapivirine vaginal ring and effect on cervical cytology abnormalities

This study aims to determine if the dapivirine vaginal ring and the ring device alone (flexible silicone matrix polymer) was associated with the development of cervical cytology abnormalities.

Research, Service Delivery