From PrEP4All: The Path Forward for a National PrEP Program: Policy and Implementation Priorities
Posted November 4, 2024From PrEP4All:
Download: The Path Forward for a National PrEP Program – October 2024
Download One Page Summary of Report
This year, PrEP4All convened over 50 PrEP users, providers, community leaders, health department representatives, and researchers from around the country to discuss best practices for achieving equity in a National PrEP Program. Following meetings hosted at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, PrEP4All has released top level recommendations in our latest report, The Path Forward for a National PrEP Program: Policy and Implementation Priorities. An accompanying summary document is also available. PrEP4All sincerely thanks Arnold Ventures for its support of this critical work.
The report discusses in detail the four pillars of a National PrEP Program: 1) Medication Access, 2) Lab Access, 3) Provider Expansion, and 4) Demand Creation, along with key policy and implementation recommendations. The report also calls on Congress to fund HIV programming, including allocations for a National PrEP Program on a scale of the initiatives proposed in President Biden’s FY23, FY24, and FY25 budget requests.
“The piecemeal, overly complicated approaches to PrEP access in America aren’t working for the communities that most need access.” explains PrEP4All Executive Director Jeremiah Johnson. “This report builds on years of multi-stakeholder discussions that have consistently found that equitable PrEP uptake will only be achieved through initiatives that comprehensively address all major barriers to access and emphasize simplicity for end users.”
“We’re grateful to have had the involvement of members of our PrEP Users Union, a racially and gender diverse group of current and former PrEP users convened by PrEP4All,” says PrEP4All Communications and Mobilization Manager Michael Chancley. “As a PrEP user myself, it’s always important that we center the voices of those who experience PrEP access challenges and inequities first hand, as we advocate for HIV policy changes.”
