ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
Willingness to Use and Adhere to HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in China.
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- Male Circumcision and HIV Risk Compensation Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2026Pooled it
- Interest in and Preference for Long-Acting Injectable Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, Trans* Individuals, and Cisgender Heterosexual Women: A Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitators to engagement with the PrEP care continuum among sexual minority men in China: a systematic review.Sexual health · 2025Pooled it
- Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Adherence Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2024Pooled it
- Systematic review of the values and preferences regarding the use of injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV acquisition.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Pooled it
- Cost-Effectiveness of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in China: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Overcoming the HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake Barrier With A Health Action Process Approach and Conditional Economic Incentives Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in 3 Chinese Cities: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Trial
- Structural and Social Drivers of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Literacy Disparities Among Men who have Sex with Men in China: A PrEP Care Cascade Analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- A Comparative Analysis of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Awareness, Acceptance, and Barriers Among Populations of Men Who Have Sex with Men in Global Settings: An Integrative Literature Review.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Review
- PrEP Use Likelihood Among People Who Use Opioid Drugs: Understanding Clinical Correlates Along the Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Cascade.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Absorbing Markov chain model of PrEP drug adherence to estimate adherence decay rate and probability distribution in clinical trials.Journal of theoretical biology · 2025Article
- Willingness to Use Long-Acting Injectable Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kampala, Uganda.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Preference for HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Access Among Men who Have Sex With Men in China: A Discrete Choice Experiment.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Low Level of Accurate Knowledge of Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U = U) Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) Challenges U = U Achievement in Chengdu, Southwestern China.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Examining the Effects of PrEP Use on Sexual Behaviors and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Chinese Men who have Sex with Men: A Cross-Sectional Study.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Significant insights from a National survey in China: PrEP awareness, willingness, uptake, and adherence among YMSM students.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Willingness to pay and price elasticity of demand for long-acting injectable cabotegravir among men who have sex with men in Guangxi, China.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Trends in sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections in China from 2005 to 2021: a joinpoint regression model.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Awareness, Willingness to Use, and Preferred Places for Access Among the Cambodian Female Entertainment Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study.AIDS and behavior · 2023Article
- Awareness of and Willingness to Use On-Demand HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men Using a Gay Social Networking App in China.AIDS patient care and STDs · 2023Article
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Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the levels of willingness to use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and intention to adhere to PrEP and to further explore factors associated with PrEP uptake among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. A total of 524 MSM were recruited from Chengdu, China. Half of the participants had heard of PrEP, and the awareness rate varied from 33.8%, 30.7%, and 7.1% for daily oral PrEP, on-demand PrEP, and long-acting injectable PrEP (LAI-PrEP), respectively. The overall willingness to use any type of PrEP in the next six months was 84.9% if PrEP is effective and provided for free. Participants were less likely to say that they would use PrEP if they used a condom consistently with their regular partners. However, participants were more likely to say that they would use PrEP if they had casual partners in the past month and had higher HIV prevention literacy. The majority of participants intended to adhere to PrEP prescription. More than forty percent (43.1%) of the participants reported that they might reduce condom use if they took PrEP. We found that the overall willingness to use PrEP was high among MSM living in China, but willingness varied across the different types of PrEP.
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