ReviewThe lancet. HIV2022
Scaling up access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP): should nurses do the job?
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- Characteristics of US Counties with Low Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Use and Limited Access to PrEP Prescribing Clinics.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Trust and task-sharing: the acceptability of nurses and peer educators in PrEP delivery among sexually and gender-diverse adolescents in Brazil.Research square · 2026Article
- Missed PrEP opportunities and vulnerability to HIV during rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis treatment in South Africa.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- High acceptability, feasibility and sustainability of a direct-to-pharmacy differentiated PrEP delivery model in public health HIV clinics in Kenya: perspectives of PrEP clients and healthcare providers.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2025Article
- A global review of national guidelines of post-exposure prophylaxis for the prevention of HIV.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2025Review
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- Health System Factors Influencing the Integration of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis into Antenatal and Postnatal Clinic Services in Cape Town, South Africa.Global health, science and practice · 2024Article
- Understanding adaptive responses in PrEP service delivery in Belgian HIV clinics: a multiple case study using an implementation science framework.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2024Article
- Perinatal outcomes associated with pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Multiple, active-offer referrals for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis by nurses yields high uptake among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men.International journal of STD & AIDS · 2024Article
- Prep provision in community organizations: a comparative study with conventional services.Revista de saude publica · 2024Article
- The Future of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV Prevention: A Global Qualitative Consultation on Provider Perspectives on New Products and Differentiated Service Delivery.AIDS and behavior · 2023Article
- Population-level impact of expanding PrEP coverage by offering long-acting injectable PrEP to MSM in three high-resource settings: a model comparison analysis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Article
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention among people who inject drugs: a global mapping of service delivery.Harm reduction journal · 2023Review
- Patient perspectives on the role of nurses in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis care (PrEP-RN).PloS one · 2023Article
- Human resource needs and costs for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis provision in nurse-led primary care in Eswatini and opportunities for task sharing.Human resources for health · 2022Article
- Nurse Practitioner-Led Integrated Rapid Access to HIV Prevention for People Who Inject Drugs (iRaPID): Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Non-ART trained health-care workers needed to prescribe PrEP in South Africa.The lancet. HIV · 2022Article
- Nurse-Led Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Delivery to Adolescent Girls and Young Women Accessing Family Planning Services: A Pilot Study in Uganda.The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANACArticle
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Abstract
Task sharing has been one of the most important enabling policies supporting the global expansion of access to HIV testing and treatment. The WHO public health approach, which relies on delivery of antiretroviral therapy (ART) by nurses, has enabled a trebling of the number of people receiving ART during the past decade. WHO recognises that HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can also be provided by nurses; however, many countries still do not have policies in place that support nurse provision of PrEP. In sub-Saharan Africa, most countries allow nurses to prescribe ART, but only a few countries have policies in place that allow nurses to prescribe PrEP. Nurse-led PrEP delivery is particularly low in the Asia-Pacific region, which has some of the world's fastest growing epidemics. Even in many high-income countries, PrEP scale-up has been limited because policies often require medical doctors or specialists to prescribe. Service providers in many countries are coming to realise that scaling up access to PrEP cannot be achieved by medical doctors alone, and nurse-led PrEP delivery can help to lay the groundwork for supporting uptake of other HIV prevention approaches that will become available in the future. Countries with policies that authorise nurses to prescribe ART could be early adopters and help to pave the way for wider adoption of nurse-led PrEP delivery.
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