| There is little consensus on the target population for PrEP |
This is going to be such a limited resource, that we want to make sure that it’s not necessarily going to all the worried well.
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| Current models of care are not always well suited for prescribing PrEP |
We are not used to having people that come back for check-ins on a regular basis.
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We wouldn’t be able to operate it if RN’s were excluded from providing [it].
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| Providers need more capacity before they can prescribe PrEP |
If we wanted our medical assistants or anyone to provide PREP, they would require some counseling training.
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So it would require some supports, both around education, around adherence, and also financially, because we have as many uninsured as we do – we’d have to have access to meds and I’m sure it’s expensive.
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| Monitoring patients on PrEP will be challenging |
I think a lot of young people tend to have less stable schedules.
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They might take it just 3 days before an event, if they know that they’re going to have a party or something special.
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| PrEP has public health benefit |
And so only treating the positive partner isn’t going to eliminate all the infections, and so finding the right balance between treatment and PrEP I think is important to have as a target.
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