Samuel M. Jenness

Enhanced screening and bacterial sexually-transmitted infection diagnoses after HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis initiation

BACKGROUND: Recipients of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) experience higher rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia diagnoses than non-recipients. However, it is unclear if these observations reflect a causal relationship between PrEP initiation and acquisition of sexually transmitt...

PrEP reinitiation, uptake, and persistence as targets for reducing HIV incidence and racial and ethnic inequities among men who have sex with men in Boston, USA: a network modeling study

Background A decade of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has lowered HIV incidence among men who have sex with men (MSM) but not enough to meet Ending the HIV Epidemic goals, and racial and ethnic disparities persist. The PrEP era has produced a population of former users facing lo...