Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to amend PrEP eligibility criteria to enable that drug to be more widely available to people at risk of contracting HIV.

There are no current plans to amend eligibility criteria for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Access to PrEP is based on existing clinical guidelines which allows clinicians to prescribe following a consideration of the patient’s risks and assessing the benefits and potential harms of provision. Clinical guidelines published by the British HIV Association and the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV are accredited by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and are available at the following link:

https://www.bhiva.org/file/5b729cd592060/2018-PrEP-Guidelines.pdf