{"id":19620,"date":"2022-05-04T07:50:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19620"},"modified":"2024-08-26T14:51:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T14:51:44","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-prep-and-pep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19620","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between PrEP and PEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>PrEP includes &#8216;Pre&#8217; exposure &#8211; ie taking prevention meds <strong>before<\/strong> you have sex (as well as afterwards). This is usually one pill taken as a daily treatment.<\/p>\n<p>PEP is &#8216;Post&#8217; exposure &#8211; ie taking prevention meds just <strong>after<\/strong> exposure. This is usually a course to three meds only taken daily for one month.<\/p>\n<p><em>Anyone who uses PEP should talk to their doctor about PrEP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/pep-and-prep\/\">PrEP, PEP and PEPSE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\">UK guide to PrEP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq\">Factsheet about PEP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, please can you help me understand when one needs to take either (1) PrEP or (2) PEP ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-peppepse","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23904,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620\/revisions\/23904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}