HerPrEP: Increasing PrEP Use Among Black Women in the United States

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to evaluate the effectiveness of implementation strategies to increase PrEP use among Black women in women’s health clinics. Effectiveness will be assessed by measuring increases in the number of women who initiate, adhere to, and persist with PrEP. The project will use an implementation science framework to understand key factors that contributed to successes and challenges associated with the implementation strategies. PrEP is a safe and effective biomedical HIV prevention intervention that is under-prescribed and under-utilized among Black women in the United States. Women’s health care settings, including family planning clinics, community health centers, and other clinics that provide women’s health care services, may be ideal sites to provide PrEP because women who might benefit from PrEP receive care at these clinics for contraception, pregnancy testing, STI testing, prenatal and post-partum care, and other health care services.
Categories: Health.