Visiting your Doctor

Are COVID vaccines safe for PrEP users and people living with HIV? Can I get vaccinated if i’m taking PrEP? Yes! Taking PrEP is an incredibly effective way to prevent HIV. Taking PrEP medication is not a reason to delay getting the COVID-19 vaccine , and there is no current evidence to suggest that the vaccine will be any less safe for people using PrEP. Getting the COVID vaccine will not make PrEP any less effective, and using PrEP won’t impact how the vaccines works to pro

NOT SURE ABOUT TAKING YOUR PREP EVERY SINGLE DAY? There are more ways to use PrEP than we knew about when we first discovered PrEP as an effective HIV prevention tool. Which means, depending on your lifestyle and your body - there may be different convenient ways to get protected. DAILY PrEP PrEP is an effective tool for most people wanting to remain HIV negative. For the majority of people - taking a daily pill for round the clock protection is a simple and effective way to

What is Descovy? Descovy and Truvada are both anti-retrovirals HIV medications. Truvada has been used to prevent HIV as PrEP since it was approved in 2012, and Descovy was approved by the U.S. FDA in 2019 for use as PrEP [1]. What’s the difference? Descovy and Truvada are both a single pill made up of two drugs, emtracitabine and tenofovir. In Descovy, the tenofovir is slightly different (referred to as TAF vs the TDF in Truvada). TAF works well even when there is less of it,

Any doctor can prescribe PrEP to you with minimal effort. They do not need to be an HIV specialist. PrEP is approved for use by anyone in Australia, and is subsidised on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for anyone with Medicare. If your doctor tells you they are unable to prescribe PrEP because they do not have the right training, or do not know about PrEP you can explain to them that there is no specialist training required to prescribe PrEP. You can provide them wi