CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

Q&A on Barriers to HIV PrEP: Pharmacist Perspectives

Episode Summary

Listen to expert pharmacists’ answers to questions on barriers to PrEP in key populations, including gaps in data on “on-demand” PrEP, improving communication with non‒English-speaking individuals, engaging with pregnant persons, lab monitoring, and oral PrEP efficacy based on adherence.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Milena Murray, PharmD, MSc, BCIDP, AAHIVP, FCCP, and Kevin Astle, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, AAHIVP, CDCES, discuss key considerations to barriers to PrEP uptake, including:

• Limited data on “on-demand” PrEP in cisgender women 
• Strategies on improving communication with non‒English-speaking populations 
• Role of pharmacists with injectable PrEP 
• CDC PrEP guideline recommendations on routine HIV-1 RNA testing 
• Engaging with pregnant persons who might want access to PrEP in the pharmacy setting
• Oral PrEP efficacy based on adherence in cisgender women, including recent data presented at CROI 2023 by Marrazzo and colleagues

Presenters: 

Milena Murray, PharmD, MSc, BCIDP, AAHIVP, FCCP
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Midwestern University College of Pharmacy, Downers Grove Campus
Downers Grove, Illinois
System-Level HIV/ID Clinical Pharmacist
Ambulatory Pharmacy
Northwestern Medicine
Wheaton, Illinois

Kevin Astle, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, AAHIVP, CDCES
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacotherapy and Clinical Research
University of South Florida
Clinical Pharmacist
Tampa General Medical Group
Tampa, Florida

Content based on an online CME program supported by an independent educational grant from ViiV Healthcare.

Link to full program:
https://bit.ly/3ZjSFhg

Downloadable slides: 
https://bit.ly/3PsFNDt