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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

Synthesis of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Policies in MOSAIC Countries

This brief summarizes the PEP policy landscape, how to address barriers to policy and implementation, and provides recommendations to increase PEP uptake as part of HIV prevention. While it focuses on countries within the MOSAIC consortium, the findings are broadly applicable for ministries of health, implementing partners, providers, and potential PEP users alike.

Normative Guidance/Policies

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7 July 2022

FDA approves first drug for reducing the risk of sexually acquired HIV infection

This article from July 16, 2012 announces the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of Truvada (emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate), the first drug approved to reduce the risk of HIV infection in uninfected individuals who are at high risk of HIV infection and who may engage in sexual activity with HIV-infected partners.

Normative Guidance/Policies

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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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