Open Access“It’s Like Plan B but for HIV!” Design and Evaluation of a Media Campaign to Drive Demand for PEP
Author(s) -
Jeremy K. Fagan,
Victoria Frye,
Rose Calixte,
Sachin Jain,
Lovely Molla,
Adeola Lawal,
Marcus P. Mosley,
Emily Greene,
Kenneth H. Mayer,
Barry S. Zingman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
aids and behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.994
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1573-3254
pISSN - 1090-7165
DOI - 10.1007/s10461-020-02906-1
Subject(s) - men who have sex with men , health psychology , focus group , formative assessment , public health , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , environmental health , social marketing , qualitative research , social media , medicine , demography , mass media , pre exposure prophylaxis , psychology , family medicine , gerontology , advertising , political science , sociology , business , nursing , pedagogy , marketing , social science , syphilis , pathology , law
Post-exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) is an effective yet underutilized HIV prevention tool. PEPTALK developed and evaluated a media campaign to drive demand for PEP among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TW) living in high HIV prevalence areas in New York City. Formative qualitative research (38 in-depth interviews and five focus groups [N = 48]) with Black or African-American MSM or TW who reported condomless sex with a HIV-positive/unknown status man was conducted to inform campaign design. We assessed the impact of the campaign, 15 bus shelter ads and low or no-cost social media, by assessing change in the proportions of new PEP patient visits, to the clinical site where the campaign directed consumers, using one-sided z-test for proportions, before and after the media campaign. The proportion of new PEP patients increased significantly after the media campaign in the periods examined, suggesting that such campaigns may increase PEP demand.