ArticleAIDS care2021
"Now that PrEP is reducing the risk of transmission of HIV, why then do you still insist that we use condoms?" the condom quandary among PrEP users and health care providers in Kenya.
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- Patterns of PrEP continuation and coverage in the first year of use: a latent class analysis of a programmatic PrEP trial in Kenya.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Trial
- Identifying sexual behavioural choices when commencing pre-exposure prophylaxis: Findings from a public health facility in eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Southern African journal of HIV medicine · 2026Article
- "At the end of the day I'd still have to use a condom!": A qualitative investigation of use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among young gay and bisexual men in Nairobi, Kenya.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- HIV prevention through social networks: evidence from a randomized controlled trial of a peer advocacy intervention in Kampala, Uganda.Journal of HIV/AIDS & social services · 2025Article
- "I will take PrEP because that's what will help me not to get infected with HIV": barriers to and facilitators of pre-exposure prophylaxis and condom use among adolescent girls and young women enrolled in a school-based HIV prevention program in South Africa.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Assessment of awareness and willingness to use pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention among female sex workers in Rwanda: a cross sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Use of preexposure prophylaxis and condom purchasing decisions.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis use during periods of unprotected sex among female sex workers in Tanga city, Tanzania: a control arm analysis of the pragmatic quasi-experimental trial.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Motivations for pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake and decline in an HIV-hyperendemic setting: findings from a qualitative implementation study in Lesotho.AIDS research and therapy · 2023Article
- "Frontiers in reproductive health · 2023Article
- Knowledge and attitudes about HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: Evidence from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with policy makers, healthcare providers, and end-users in Lesotho.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Serodiscordance predictors among couples in the HIV context: implications for health care.BMC public health · 2021Article
- "Condoms Are Boring": Navigating Relationship Dynamics, Gendered Power, and Motivations for Condomless Sex Amongst Adolescents and Young People in South Africa.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Communication around condom use in the context of PrEP services presents a potential conundrum for patients and providers. Within the Partners Scale-Up Project, which supports integration of PrEP delivery in HIV care clinics, we interviewed 41 providers and 61 PrEP users and identified themes relating to condom messaging and use. Most providers counselled PrEP initiators to always use both PrEP and condoms, except when trying to conceive. However, others reported contexts and rationales for not emphasizing condom use. Providers reported that PrEP users were sometimes confused, even frustrated, with their insistence on using condoms in addition to PrEP. PrEP users generally regarded PrEP as a more feasible and desirable HIV prevention method than condoms, enabling increased sexual pleasure and conception, and reducing the conflict and stigma associated with condom use. Innovative approaches to condom counselling in PrEP programs are needed.
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