{"id":31342,"date":"2017-02-27T12:04:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=31342"},"modified":"2017-02-27T13:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:43:28","slug":"update-on-prep-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/31342","title":{"rendered":"Update on PrEP in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HIV Scotland newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 5th December 2016, Gilead submitted an application to the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) for PrEP to be made available on the NHS in Scotland. [1]<\/p>\n<p>The SMC have subsequently invited groups to make Patient Group Submissions by 6 February 2017, and will announce whether they approve of providing PrEP on the NHS in Scotland on 10 April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>HIV Scotland are working together with Terrence Higgins Trust Scotland, SX and Waverley Care as part of the #PrEP4Scotland campaign to write a submission. To help us understand people&#8217;s experience of PrEP in Scotland and to gather questions people may have, we conducted an online survey that received more than 300 responses.<\/p>\n<p>HIV Scotland is also working on a project to better understand the needs of heterosexual people in relation to PrEP. [2]<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>HIV Scotland eBulletin. January 2017.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hivscotland.com\/our-work\/prep-in-scotland\">http:\/\/www.hivscotland.com\/our-work\/prep-in-scotland<\/a><\/li>\n<li>HIV Scotland. PrEP and heterosexual people. (12 January 2017).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hivscotland.com\/news-and-events\/latest-news\/article\/prep-and-heterosexual-people\">http:\/\/www.hivscotland.com\/news-and-events\/latest-news\/article\/prep-and-heterosexual-people<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIV Scotland newsletter On 5th December 2016, Gilead submitted an application to the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) for PrEP to be made available on the NHS in Scotland. [1] The SMC have subsequently invited groups to make Patient Group Submissions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transmission-and-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}