Table 5.

Participants' Attitudes and Beliefs About Use of PrEP for HIV Prevention (n=25)

Statements	Mean agreement score and (SD)
PrEP for HIV prevention
Taking a daily HIV pill would be a good way to protect myself from getting HIV.	3.48 (0.65)
If I take PrEP when it becomes available, I can lower my chances of getting infected with HIV.	3.36 (0.49)
If my doctor suggested that I take PrEP to protect myself from getting HIV, I would take it.	3.48 (0.59)
Risk compensation/disinhibition
Taking PrEP would mean you can have sex without using condoms.	2.20 (1.00)
Having PrEP available will make safer sex less important.	2.36 (0.91)
If I was taking PrEP I would be more likely to have sex without using a condom.	2.76 (1.20)
HIV stigma
I would be very uncomfortable taking HIV medicines when I don't have HIV.	1.88 (0.93)
Side effect of PrEP
Not knowing if there are long-term side effects of taking a daily HIV pill makes me very uncomfortable.	3.08 (0.86)
I would be more comfortable using PrEP if I knew just how it would affect my health.	3.48 (0.51)
PrEP adoption intentions
I would wait until other people were taking PrEP before I use it myself.	2.56 (0.96)
I would be one of the first people to use PrEP, if it were available.	2.80 (1.04)

Note: Response categories: Strongly disagree=1, Disagree=2, Agree=3, Strongly agree=4.

SD, standard deviation; PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis.