ShutterstockA quarter of gay and bisexual men diagnosed with HIV in 2021 had used PrEP at some time before their diagnosis, clinicians in Seattle report. This number had hugely increased 2014, when it was only 2%. Furthermore, over half of the men were diagnosed less than six months after stopping PrEP.
This echoes the findings of a large UK study from 56 Dean Street which also showed sharp increases in the percentage of newly diagnosed men with HIV who had recently taken PrEP. In that case, it was suspected that many of those men had caught HIV prior to starting PrEP. Other studies have shown that Black gay and bisexual men and those that use methamphetamines are more likely to discontinue PrEP, so could be important communities to provide additional support to.
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