CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

Key Decisions in HIV Care: Initiating PrEP

Episode Summary

Listen as Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH, explains how to initiate PrEP in underserved communities, with examples on overcoming barriers and improving access.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH, explains how to initiate pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), including in underserved communities, with examples on overcoming barriers and improving access.

Listen as she gives her perspectives on:

• Evidence for PrEP efficacy in the DISCOVER study
• Recommendations in MSM, heterosexual men and women, injection drug users, and adolescents and adults weighing more than 77 lb
• CDC guidance
• How PrEP is underused, including racial/ethnic disparities
• Strategies to overcoming barriers

Presenter:

Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
Director of Diversity and Inclusion
General Medical Education
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

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