{"id":36660,"date":"2019-09-30T08:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T08:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=36660"},"modified":"2019-09-30T13:13:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T13:13:50","slug":"who-update-prep-guidelines-to-include-event-based-dosing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/36660","title":{"rendered":"WHO update PrEP guidelines to include event-based dosing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"HTBsubhead3authorcredit\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><strong>On 13 July 2019, WHO published a technical brief to update the current WHO recommendation on oral PrEP to include an option of event-driven dosing for men who have sex with men.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">This technical brief aims to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"HTBBODYindent\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Update the dosing considerations for oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) containing TDF for men who have sex with men.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"HTBBODYindent\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Summarise current evidence on the safety and efficacy of event-driven PrEP (ED-PrEP).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"HTBBODYindent\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Describe the rationale for offering ED-PrEP as an alternative to daily oral PrEP to men who have sex with men as part of comprehensive HIV prevention and sexual health services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"HTBBODYindent\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Discuss considerations for offering ED PrEP to men who have sex with men, including clear messaging on how men who have sex with men can switch from ED-PrEP to daily dosing (and vice-versa).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"HTBreference-noindent\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Reference: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBreference-noindent\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">WHO. <\/span>What\u2019s the 2+1+1? Event-driven oral pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV for men who have sex with men: Update to WHO\u2019s recommendation on oral PrEP. July 2019.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/hiv\/pub\/prep\/211\/en\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/hiv\/pub\/prep\/211\/en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base On 13 July 2019, WHO published a technical brief to update the current WHO recommendation on oral PrEP to include an option of event-driven dosing for men who have sex with men. This technical brief aims &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidelines","category-transmission-and-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36660","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}