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- Title
Nurse-led pre-exposure prophylaxis: a non-traditional model to provide HIV prevention in a resource-constrained, pragmatic clinical trial.
- Authors
Schmidt, Heather-Marie A.; McIver, Ruthy; Houghton, Rebecca; Selvey, Christine; McNulty, Anna; Varma, Rick; Grulich, Andrew E.; Holden, Joanne
- Abstract
There is little evidence and no standardised model for nurse-led HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). In 2016, public sexual health clinics in the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, participating in the population-scale PrEP access trial Expanded PrEP Implementation In Communities in New South Wales (EPIC-NSW) were authorised to adopt a nurse-led model of PrEP provision in order to facilitate the rapid expansion of PrEP access to more than 8000 participants in under 2 years without additional resources. The model has been implemented successfully in public clinics in 10 of 14 local health districts, with widespread support and no serious safety events reported. With the increasing importance of PrEP as an HIV prevention tool, non-traditional models of care, including nurse-led PrEP, are needed.
- Subjects
NURSE-led clinics; PRE-exposure prophylaxis; HIV infection transmission; HIV prevention; SEXUAL health
- Publication
Sexual Health (14485028), 2018, Vol 15, Issue 6, p595
- ISSN
1448-5028
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1071/SH18076