Readiness of US Federally Qualified Health Centers to Provide HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis

Kevin L Ard; Ugochukwu Uzoeghelu; Jack Bruno; Cei Lambert; Kenneth H Mayer; John A Davis; Alex S Keuroghlian

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofab447

Readiness of US Federally Qualified Health Centers to Provide HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Sep 1;8(10):ofab447. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab447. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Authors

Kevin L Ard^{1

2

3}, Ugochukwu Uzoeghelu³, Jack Bruno², Cei Lambert², Kenneth H Mayer^{2

3

4}, John A Davis⁵, Alex S Keuroghlian^{2

3

6}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² The Fenway Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract

We report the results of a survey on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) perceptions, capacity, and barriers at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in high-HIV burden jurisdictions in the United States. Health care workers at FQHCs identified multiple barriers to, and strategies for, improving PrEP implementation.

Keywords: HIV; LGBTQ; PrEP; health center; prevention.