Pre-exposure prophylaxis awareness, use, and intention to use in a regional sample of Latin American geosocial networking application users in 2018–2019
Average rating
Cast your vote
You can rate an item by clicking the amount of stars they wish to award to this item.
When enough users have cast their vote on this item, the average rating will also be shown.
Star rating
Your vote was cast
Thank you for your feedback
Thank you for your feedback
Authors
Blair, Kevin J.Segura, Eddy R.
Garner, Alex
Lai, Jianchao
Ritterbusch, Amy
Leon-Giraldo, Sebastian
Guilamo-Ramos, Vincent
Lake, Jordan E.
Clark, Jesse L.
Holloway, Ian W.
Issue Date
2021-11-01
Metadata
Show full item recordPublisher
SAGE Publications LtdJournal
International Journal of STD and AIDSDOI
10.1177/09564624211034618Additional Links
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09564624211034618Abstract
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) access is increasing in Latin America. We explored PrEP use among Spanish-speaking, Hornet geosocial networking application users from Latin American countries with limited PrEP data via an online survey completed between December 2018 and February 2019. A total of 718 Hornet users from 10 countries were included, of whom 72.1% reported PrEP awareness. Few (5.6%) were currently taking PrEP, though 32.1% intended to take PrEP in the subsequent 6 months. PrEP awareness was lower in 18–25 year olds compared to 26+ (62.4% vs. 75.6%, aOR 0.67, [95% CI 0.46–0.97]), and higher among those living in larger versus smaller cities (74.4% vs. 58.8%, aOR 1.96, [95% CI 1.25–3.07]) or countries with at least partial versus no PrEP policy adoption (79.1% vs. 60.8%, aOR 2.20, [95% CI 1.56–3.12]). Intention to use PrEP was higher among PrEP-eligible respondents (51.8% vs. 29.6%, aOR 2.26, [95% CI 1.26–4.07]) and those recently tested for a sexually transmitted infection (35.4% vs. 25.5%, aOR 1.58, [95% CI 1.01–2.48]). Efforts to expand PrEP use in Latin America should focus on national PrEP policy adoption, and research should explore barriers to awareness and use among young men who have sex with men.Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/articleRights
info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccessLanguage
engDescription
El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado.ISSN
09564624EISSN
17581052Sponsors
National Institute of Mental Healthae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1177/09564624211034618
Scopus Count
Collections