CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

PrEP Considerations for Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals

Episode Summary

Providing gender-affirming care is a key step in effectively increasing PrEP uptake for transgender individuals.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Jill Blumenthal, MD, MAS, discusses HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) considerations for transgender and nonbinary individuals, including:

• Providing gender-affirming care
• Integrating PrEP and gender care
• Taking a sexual history and addressing sexual health
• PrEP efficacy and options for transgender individuals, including FTC/TDF, FTC/TAF, and long-acting CAB
• The importance of reassuring transgender individuals that data suggest there are no drug–drug interactions between gender-affirming hormone therapy and any of the PrEP options
   

Jill Blumenthal, MD, MAS (she/hers)
Associate Professor of Medicine
Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California
 

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