PrEP Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The public health response to COVID-19 has limited access to some aspects of medical care and essential services. In this new, socially distanced world, healthcare workers and clinics have been forced to adjust how they provide necessary services to patients.

For urban Indian and tribal clinics, that means learning how to continue prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, the daily pill that can prevent HIV. When taken as prescribed, PrEP can reduce the risk of contracting HIV by at least 74% for those who use injection drugs and from sex by 99%2.