HIV Infection: Drugs

(asked on 11th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to promote (a) knowledge and (b) take-up of PrEP among communities affected by HIV in addition to gay and bisexual men.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 24th November 2020

The Public Health England (PHE) commissioned HIV Prevention England (HPE) programme is currently running a campaign that aims to raise awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among black African communities. Further information is available at the following link:

https://www.startswithme.org.uk/

PHE’s Innovation Fund, has funded seven projects between 2017 and 2019 that tested and evaluated new approaches to raising awareness of PrEP in communities including, trans people, Latin Americans, black African men and women and women of colour. More information is available at the following links:

https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/public-health-england-hiv-prevention-innovation-fund-cohort-2-evaluation-report

https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/public-health-england-hiv-prevention-innovation-fund-cohort-3-evaluation-report

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