TABLE 2. Newly initiated CDC-supported pre-exposure prophylaxis users, by sex, age, and key population — U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, 37 supported countries, fiscal years 2017─2023*,†.
| Region | All PrEP initiations, no. (%) |
Key population initiations,§ no. (%) |
||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex |
Age group, yrs |
Adolescent girls and young women¶ | ||||||||||||
| Female | Male | 15–24 | 25–34 | 35–44 | ≥45 | Total | Female sex workers | Men who have sex with men | Persons in prisons and other enclosed settings | Persons who inject drugs | Transgender persons | Total | ||
| Sub-Saharan Africa |
1,436,782
(65.8)** |
747,395
(34.2) |
993,002
(45.4) |
761,841
(34.8) |
311,763
(14.2) |
121,780
(5.6) |
2,188,386
(96.0)
|
767,654
(33.7) |
465,696
(63.4) |
188,223
(25.6) |
26,053
(3.5) |
43,903
(6.0) |
7,345
(1.0) |
731,220
(90.9)
|
| Southeast Asia |
6,261
(14.8) |
35,916
(85.2) |
17,990
(42.9) |
16,085
(38.4) |
5,599
(13.4) |
2,243
(5.4) |
41,917
(1.8)
|
1,965
(0.1) |
1,405
(4.1) |
32,187
(93.4) |
1
(0.0) |
459
(1.3) |
635
(1.8) |
34,460
(4.3)
|
| Eurasia |
4,993
(26.2) |
14,056
(73.8) |
3,633
(19.1) |
6,121
(32.2) |
6,032
(31.7) |
3,250
(17.1) |
19,036
(0.8)
|
452
(0.0) |
756
(5.5) |
9,580
(69.2) |
5
(0.0) |
3,459
(25.0) |
33
(0.2) |
13,833
(1.7)
|
| The Americas |
6,618
(22.4) |
22,953
(77.6) |
9,301
(31.6) |
13,723
(46.7) |
4,817
(16.4) |
1,563
(5.3) |
29,404
(1.3)
|
2,110
(0.1) |
4,572
(18.3) |
19,315
(77.2) |
58
(0.0) |
293
(1.2) |
766
(3.1) |
25,004
(3.1)
|
| Total | 1,454,654 (64.0) | 820,320 (36.0) | 1,023,926 (44.9) | 79,770 (35.0) | 328,211 (14.4) | 12,8836 (5.7) | 2,278,743 (99.9) †† | 772,181 (33.9) | 472,376 (58.6) | 247,387 (30.7) | 26,117 (3.2) | 48,049 (6.0) | 8,675 (1.1) | 804,517 (35.3) |
Abbreviations: PEPFAR = U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief; PrEP = pre-exposure prophylaxis.
* U.S. fiscal year = October 1–September 30.
† PEPFAR Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting data from regions (countries): sub-Saharan Africa (Botswana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe); Southeast Asia (India, Laos, Philippines Thailand, and Vietnam); Eurasia (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Ukraine); and the Americas (Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, and Panama).
§ Not all disaggregated indicators were reported throughout the 7-year period. Reporting by key population was not uniform across all countries until 2019.
¶ Females aged 15–24 years.
** Data on PrEP initiations by sex in sub-Saharan Africa were missing for some countries in 2017 and 2018.
†† Total percentage of PrEP initiations does not sum to 100 because of rounding.