Black and Latino gay men are less likely to take an HIV prevention pill, PrEP, largely because doctors don't recommend it to them, researchers find. - NBCOUT
Candidates for PrEP use include men with multiple male sex partners in the past year, a male sex partner with an HIV infection during the past year, condomless anal sex or a bacterial sexually-transmitted infection within the past year.
Overall, 95 percent of the white men in the study said they were aware of PrEP, along with 87 percent of Hispanic men and 86 percent of black men. Yet only 58 percent of whites, 44 percent of Hispanics and 43 percent of blacks said they discussed PrEP with a clinician in the past year.reported taking PrEPAmong the steps from awareness to getting onto PrEP, discussing it with a healthcare provider seemed pivotal. Men who got that far were more likely to be using PrEP. Still, disparities remained.
These differences were not explained by a lack of insurance or a usual source of health care - typical barriers to accessing prescription medications. Geographically, disparities in PrEP use were seen between white and black men in the South and West, and between white and Hispanic men in the South. The CDC estimates that less than 25 percent of the more than 1 million Americans who could benefit from PrEP are using it, Kanny said. She added, “There is a critical need to address racial and ethnic disparities.”
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