{"id":3594,"date":"2021-02-01T21:29:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T05:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2021-02-01T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T05:29:58","slug":"changes-in-sexual-behavior-prep-adherence-and-access-to-sexual-health-services-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-among-a-cohort-of-prep-using-msm-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/01\/changes-in-sexual-behavior-prep-adherence-and-access-to-sexual-health-services-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-among-a-cohort-of-prep-using-msm-in-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Sexual Behavior, PrEP Adherence, and Access to Sexual Health Services Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic among a Cohort of PrEP-Using MSM in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One fifth of men who have sex with men using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the Southern US (n = 56) between October 2019 to July 2020 reported discontinuing or changing the frequency of PrEP use due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Five participants (9%) reported discontinuing PrEP, eight experienced difficulties obtaining PrEP medication (16%), and 18 did not have an HIV (32%) or STI test (43%) in the past 3 months. Most participants indicated a decrease in sexual activity with casual partners, but few reported decreased sexual activity with main partners.<\/p>\n<p><i>Pampati et al. (Jan 28, 2021). Changes in Sexual Behavior, PrEP Adherence, and Access to Sexual Health Services Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic among a Cohort of PrEP-Using MSM in the South. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/QAI.0000000000002640\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/QAI.0000000000002640<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One fifth of men who have sex with men using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the Southern US (n = 56) between October 2019 to July 2020 reported discontinuing or changing the frequency of PrEP use due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Five participants (9%) reported discontinuing PrEP, eight experienced difficulties obtaining PrEP medication (16%), and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/01\/changes-in-sexual-behavior-prep-adherence-and-access-to-sexual-health-services-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-among-a-cohort-of-prep-using-msm-in-the-south\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44,29],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","tag-public-health","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}