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The PrEPWatch Resource Database offers a wide range of material on the status of PrEP as an option for biomedical HIV prevention around the world. Search this database to find step-by-step guidance for rolling out PrEP, summaries of the research to date on safety, efficacy and implementation, tools to assist planning and roll out, country updates on PrEP policy and access, and lessons learned from those efforts.

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7 July 2022

WHO PrEP Implementation Tool App

The Oral PrEP eLearning Resource Package (eLRP) introduces health care providers to Oral PrEP for HIV infection. The eLRP includes eLearning courses for clinicians with an accompanying Oral PrEP Implementation Tool App.

Normative Guidance/Policies

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7 July 2022

Descovy for PrEP

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reported that they have approved Descovy (emtricitabine 200 mg and tenofovir alafenamide 25 mg) in at-risk adults and adolescents weighing at least 35kg for HIV-1 pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) who at at risk of acquiring HIV.

Normative Guidance/Policies

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7 July 2022

FDA approves second drug to prevent HIV infection as part of ongoing efforts to end the HIV epidemic

This article announces the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of Descovy in at-risk adults and adolescents for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the risk of HIV infection from sex, excluding those who have receptive vaginal sex.

Normative Guidance/Policies

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7 July 2022

Descovy for PrEP – FDA Supplemental Approval

This letter from the US Food and Drug Administration outlines supplemental approval granted to Descovy, an oral PrEP medication.

Normative Guidance/Policies

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7 July 2022

Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery and monitoring: recommendations for a public health approach

These consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery and monitoring bring together existing and new clinical and programmatic recommendations across different ages, populations and settings, bringing together all relevant WHO guidance on HIV produced since 2016. It serves as an update to the previous edition of the consolidated guidelines on HIV.

Normative Guidance/Policies, Service Delivery

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7 July 2022

WHO recommends the Dapivirine vaginal ring as a new choice for HIV prevention for women at substantial risk of HIV infection

This article announces the WHO's recommendation that the dapivirine vaginal ring may be offered as an additional prevention choice for women at substantial risk of HIV infection as part of combination prevention approaches.

Community/Advocacy, Normative Guidance/Policies

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7 July 2022

PEPFAR – US Department of State

Through PEPFAR, or the The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the U.S. government has invested about $100 billion into the global HIV/AIDS response. In doing so, the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Global Health Diplomacy, which manages PEPFAR, has provided a number of resources, from reports, to an outline…

Monitoring & Evaluation, Normative Guidance/Policies

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7 July 2022

Adoption of guidelines on and use of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis: a global summary and forecasting study

Widespread adoption of WHO PrEP recommendations coincided with a global increase in PrEP use. Although the 2020 global PrEP target will be missed, strong future growth in PrEP use is possible. New PrEP products could expand the PrEP user base, and, with greater expansion of oral PrEP, further adoption of WHO PrEP recommendations, and simplified…

Normative Guidance/Policies, Research, Service Delivery

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7 July 2022

Health system adaptations and considerations to facilitate optimal oral pre-exposure prophylaxis scale-up in sub-Saharan Africa

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa have progressively scaled up oral PrEP as part of combination HIV prevention. Initial scale-up efforts have generated progress, drawing lessons from existing HIV interventions, such as antiretroviral therapy and biomedical prevention. However, beset by unprepared health systems, scale-up has been slow. This review synthesises literature on essential considerations for PrEP scale-up,…

Normative Guidance/Policies, Research, Service Delivery

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7 July 2022

Updated recommendations on HIV prevention, infant diagnosis, antiretroviral initiation and monitoring

These guidelines provide new and updated recommendations on the use of point-of-care testing in children under 18 months of age and point-of-care tests to monitor treatment in people living with HIV; the treatment monitoring algorithm; and timing of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people living with HIV who are being treated for tuberculosis.

Normative Guidance/Policies

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