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Is PEP prescribed appropriately?
Author(s) -
Whitlock G,
Nwokolo N,
McOwan A
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
hiv medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.53
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1468-1293
pISSN - 1464-2662
DOI - 10.1111/hiv.12275
Subject(s) - medicine , men who have sex with men , recreational drug , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , condom , post exposure prophylaxis , pre exposure prophylaxis , anal intercourse , recreational drug use , demography , drug , family medicine , pediatrics , pharmacology , syphilis , sociology
We describe the characteristics of HIV post‐exposure prophylaxis (PEP) recipients and PEP indications at 56 Dean Street, a central London sexual health clinic. PEP was prescribed on 577 occasions. Most (97%) was given for unprotected anal intercourse. Over a fifth of exposures involved recreational drug use. Of the patients prescribed PEP, 5.9% were given PEP more than once in this period. As a snapshot of HIV risk behaviour, we note the prevalence of drug use, sex without condom use and group sex among PEP recipients.

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