PrEP Semi-Annual Report for British Columbia – Fourth Quarter 2022
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‘I feel pretty liberated’: How UBC students access PrEP
Alexander Tsang, a third-year Sauder student, started using PrEP in summer 2020 after a Grindr hookup. “It was pretty sketchy,” he recalled of the hookup. Tsang, who is from Vancouver, said he contacted a few clinics around the city before he was able to get on PrEP through the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC).
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Gay social and sexual norms are shifting in the PrEP era
While cost remains the biggest barrier to accessing PrEP for gay and bisexual men in Canada, they also felt pressure to take PrEP and have sex without condoms, with younger men tending to feel less anxious about HIV transmission. This reflects shifting social and sexual norms in the era of PrEP and U=U, according to
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PrEP is not the driving force behind rising STI rates, says new study
Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis among gay men have shot up in recent years. One of the reasons put forward for this is more men are taking PrEP, having sex without condoms, and therefore putting themselves at greater risk of acquiring other sexually-transmitted infections (STIs). A new study from the University of New South
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