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Exploring young people's attitudes to HIV prevention medication (PrEP) in England: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Young people aged 18-24 years old are a key demographic target for eliminating HIV transmission globally. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a prevention medication, reduces HIV transmission. Despite good uptake by gay and bisexual men who have sex with men, hesitancy to use PrEP has been observed in other groups, such as young people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds. The aim of this study was to explore young people's perceptions and attitudes to using PrEP.

Design

A qualitative transcendental phenomenological design was used.

Participants and setting

A convenience sample of 24 young people aged between 18 and 24 years was recruited from England.

Methods

Semistructured interviews and graphical elicitation were used to collect data including questions about current experiences of HIV care, awareness of using PrEP and decision-making about accessing PrEP. Thematic and visual analyses were used to identify findings.

Results

Young people had good levels of knowledge about HIV but poor understanding of using PrEP. In this information vacuum, negative stigma and stereotypes about HIV and homosexuality were transferred to using PrEP, which were reinforced by cultural norms portrayed on social media, television and film-such as an association between using PrEP and being a promiscuous, white, gay male. In addition, young people from ethnic minority communities appeared to have negative attitudes to PrEP use, compared with ethnic majority counterparts. This meant these young people in our study were unable to make decisions about when and how to use PrEP.

Conclusion

Findings indicate an information vacuum for young people regarding PrEP. A strength of the study is that theoretical data saturation was reached. A limitation of the study is participants were largely from Northern England, which has low prevalence of HIV. Further work is required to explore the information needs of young people in relation to PrEP.

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC10953311 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

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Exploring young people's attitudes to HIV prevention medication (PrEP) in England: a qualitative study.

Rathbone Adam A Cartwright Nia N Cummings Lewis L Noble Rebecca R Budaiova Kristina K Ashton Mark M Foster Jonathan J Payne Brendan B Duncan Sarah S

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<h4>Introduction</h4>Young people aged 18-24 years old are a key demographic target for eliminating HIV transmission globally. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a prevention medication, reduces HIV transmission. Despite good uptake by gay and bisexual men who have sex with men, hesitancy to use PrEP has been observed in other groups, such as young people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds. The aim of this study was to explore young people's perceptions and attitudes to using PrEP.<h4>Des ...[more]

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Dataset Information

Exploring young people's attitudes to HIV prevention medication (PrEP) in England: a qualitative study.

Introduction

Design

Participants and setting

Methods

Results

Conclusion

Publications

Exploring young people's attitudes to HIV prevention medication (PrEP) in England: a qualitative study.

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