Leading community-led PrEP services are rethinking how they deliver services while reaching beyond their traditional user base. Facing waiting lists of thousands, the clinics are streamlining care and developing new strategies to engage trans people and migrant men who have sex with men. These were among the approaches shared at the 2nd European Workshop on Breaking PrEP Barriers, held in Barcelona.
The workshop was put in place by BCN Checkpoint, a community-led sexual health centre in Barcelona that has itself provided PrEP to 5347 people in the last six years. That represents 15% of all PrEP users in Spain, and 44% of PrEP users in the autonomous community of Catalonia. What’s more, 88.7% of people who start PrEP are still receiving it 24 months later, an unusually high level of retention.
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Source : aidsmap
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