HIV Infection: Drugs

(asked on 10th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that pre-exposure prophylaxis is available in (a) community pharmacies and (b) other settings outside of sexual health clinics.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 23rd May 2022

The development of a plan to provide HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in settings outside of sexual and reproductive health services will commence in the autumn. We are currently gathering evidence to inform the development of the plan, including research being undertaken by the English HIV and Sexual Health Commissioners’ Group to understand why some groups who would benefit from PrEP do not access it. It will also be informed by a pilot scheme for accessing PrEP in prisons, data collected by the UK Health Security Agency and the evaluation of community pharmacy provision of PrEP services by the Sexual and Reproductive Health Innovation Fund.

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