{"id":1444,"date":"2020-10-08T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2020-10-09T10:33:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T17:33:59","slug":"substantial-decline-in-use-of-hiv-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-following-introduction-of-covid-19-physical-distancing-restrictions-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/08\/substantial-decline-in-use-of-hiv-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-following-introduction-of-covid-19-physical-distancing-restrictions-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Substantial Decline in Use of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Following Introduction of COVID-19 Physical Distancing Restrictions in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Overall, 42% of 847 gay and bisexual men participating in an online cohort study of men in Australia reported discontinuing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) due to COVID-19 restrictions, which coincided with a reduction in sexual activity. PrEP use in this cohort increased from 4.9% in 2015 to 47.2% in 2020. PrEP discontinuation was associated with lower likelihood of recent testing for HIV and lower likelihood of reporting sex with casual partners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hammoud et al. (Oct 7, 2020). Substantial Decline in Use of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Following Introduction of COVID-19 Physical Distancing Restrictions in Australia. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/QAI.0000000000002514\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/QAI.0000000000002514<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, 42% of 847 gay and bisexual men participating in an online cohort study of men in Australia reported discontinuing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) due to COVID-19 restrictions, which coincided with a reduction in sexual activity. PrEP use in this cohort increased from 4.9% in 2015 to 47.2% in 2020. PrEP discontinuation was associated with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/08\/substantial-decline-in-use-of-hiv-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-following-introduction-of-covid-19-physical-distancing-restrictions-in-australia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}