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CHANGES IN SEXUAL BEHAVIORS
DUE TO THE UTILIZATION OF PREP
AS A PREVENTIVE METHOD FOR THE
TRANSMISSION OF HIV
A
ccording to the joint united nations programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
and the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 33.4 million in-
dividuals throughout the world have been affected by HIV/AIDS in the last 30
years or so (Bonacquisti & Geller, 2013). The medication truvada otherwise
known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been introduced to serve as
a harm reduction technique to combat the spread of HIV infection. PrEP is
an antiretroviral drug that lowers the risk of HIV exposure. This is a qualita-
tive study examining the sexual behaviors of gay and bisexual men prescribed
PrEP as a preventive method for the transmission of HIV. The study was con-
ducted by 30 semi structured in depth interviews of people who had been pre-
scribed PrEP for at least 30 days in three cities: Los Angeles, Philadelphia and
New York City. The results indicate that contextual factors shaped the sexual
behaviors of participants on PrEP leading them to lower risk at times and el-
evate it at others. PrEP caused individuals to experience changes within their
communication patterns with their medical providers and their sexual part-
ners. The results shed light on the way people on PrEP engage in sexual and
health seeking behaviors and help to develop a blueprint for the way service
providers engage with this community.
Biography
Michael Dean Kaltenbach is a part-time lecturer at
Rutgers University School of social work, teaching
a course in human behavior in the social environ-
ment. He has previously taught BSW and MSW lev-
el courses in crisis intervention and brief therapy,
introduction to social welfare / human services,
communication in social work practice, human be-
havior and the social environment, and emotional
disorders in childhood and adolescents at Temple
University and the University of Southern Califor-
nia.
mkalt@sp2.upenn.eduMichael Dean Kaltenbach
University of Pennsylvania, USA