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About Treatment as Prevention (TasP)

TasP

Treatment as Prevention

Treatment as Prevention (TasP) refers to the use of anti-retrovirial HIV medication to reduce the chance of transmitting HIV to others through sex, needle sharing, or during pregnancy and birth.

In concise, TasP works by decreasing the amount of HIV in the body. This makes a person’s blood, vaginal fluid, breast milk, and semen less likely to pass HIV to others.

When people living with HIV reduce the amount of virus in the body to &#;undetectable&#; levels, by taking ARV treatments, the chance of transmitting HIV to others through sex is reduced to zero &#; even without the use condoms or PrEP.

Researchers, scientists, and international health organisations are all in agreement that sexual HIV transmission cannot occur when people with HIV are on treatment and our viral load is undetectable.

So, rest-assured, treatment as prevention (TasP) really does work. Combine this with the unequivocal findings that timely treatment is finest for our distant term health, and it’s a no brainer. Today, coupled with much saf

Optimizing PrEP and TasP adherence among substance using gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men

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    TypeTrainee Award

  • Principal investigatorKiffer Card
  • Supervisors Nathan Lachowsky
  • Host institution University of Victoria
  • Research location University of Victoria

While increased access to HIV treatment and other health services has contributed to significant declines in HIV among several key populations in British Columbia (BC), it is estimated that as many as 1 in 6 gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime.

To address this health equity concern, BC recently expanded access to a once-a-day pill, called pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), that can prohibit HIV acquisition. However, gbMSM who verb drugs report reduced adherence to PrEP, as well as to other antiretroviral therapies (ART) that could prevent transmission—thus reducing the overall efficacy of these policy-driven interventions.

Recognizing the diverse experiences of substance-using gbMSM, Dr. Card, along with an interdis

HIV incidence fell by three-quarters in Australian gay men, with strong association with treatment as prevention

HIV treatment as prevention, as measured in community-level viral suppression, was strongly associated with a large release in the number of new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men in Australia, even before PrEP was available. This examine was presented by Dr Denton Callander from the University of New South Wales yesterday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI ).

Despite the clear benefits of treatment as prevention (or Undetectable = Untransmittable, U=U) at the individual level, no large-scale studies have yet evaluated the community-level effects of treatment as prevention (TasP) on direct measures of HIV incidence among gay and bisexual men. Previous research has indicated a disconnect between the benefits of TasP/U=U at the individual and population levels. Large observational and experimental studies carried out in various sub-Saharan African countries failed to show a mighty link between rates of viral suppression and associ

PrEP, TasP and the casual sex scripts among serodiscordant gay men

Department or Administrative Unit

Sociology

Abstract

HIV-prevention strategies possess produced a divide between serodiscordant gay men. Using Sexual Scripts Theory and interviews, we travel how pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is shaping gay men’s casual sex relationships among serodiscordant partners. Together with Treatment-as-Prevention, PrEP appears to be improving these relationships. Participants’ stories unveil that they are engaged in the fluctuating sexual landscapes formed by modern prevention approaches, maintaining shared safe-sex scripts that foster risk-reduction, but modifying them to include reexamined fears and resulting barriers to sexual communication, opportunities and satisfaction and reevaluated ideas about appropriate partners. We talk about the health and service implications of these transforming scripts.

Recommended Citation

Tester, G., & Hoxmeier, J. C. (). PrEP, TasP and the casual sex scripts among serodiscordant gay men. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, 19(2), –

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