CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

The Role of College Campuses in HIV PrEP Uptake

Episode Summary

Many existing venues, communities, and networks on college campuses provide potential opportunities to integrate pre-exposure prophylaxis messaging and promote uptake.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Kenric Ware, PharmD, AAHIVP, discusses the role of college campuses in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake for adolescents, including the following.

• PrEP awareness and education
• Venues for ongoing PrEP conversations, including in-person dormitory discussions, virtual webinars, and social media conversations
• Campus health clinics that are safe and trusting and minimize stigma
• Individualized approaches, including:
• Engaging local students in discussions of regional barriers and facilitators to PrEP uptake on their campus
• Recruiting PrEP ambassadors with social capital on campus, such as student athletes or sorority or fraternity leaders
• Identifying faculty and administrator PrEP champions to amplify and provide continuity and support to student PrEP messaging

Kenric Ware, PharmD, AAHIVP
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacy Practice 
South University
Savannah, Georgia
Chairperson, Pharmacist
Board of Directors
Joseph H. Neal Health Collaborative
Columbia, South Carolina 

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