Pregnant and breastfeeding cis women are paying the price for exclusion from PrEP research

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Pregnant and breastfeeding cisgender women are underrepresented in trials of new pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs and formulations. Dr Dvora Joseph Davey of University of Cape Town and colleagues say they want to see this evidence gap overcome by the intentional inclusion of this group in study planning, conduct and results dissemination in order to “enhance the scientific and ethical quality of HIV prevention studies” in their paper published in The Lancet HIV.

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