What people want from sex and preexposure prophylaxis.
What people want from sex and preexposure prophylaxis.
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DOI:
10.1097/coh.0000000000000216
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发表时间:
2016-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Koester KA
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作者:
Grant RM;Koester KA
As demand for pre-exposure prophylaxis increases, we are learning more about what people want from sex and PrEP. PrEP demand has reached a tipping point in the United States and is increasing rapidly. While the primary benefit of pre-exposure prophylaxis use is biological, to reduce risk of HIV infection, PrEP users often express an alternative set of social and emotional benefits that are provided by PrEP. These collateral benefits of PrEP have salience, affect, and are experienced in the present, which are compelling drivers of human behavior. PrEP use has been associated with feeling safe during sex, usually in contrast to ruminations related to fear of HIV or intimate partner violence or control. PrEP can create empowerment, or agency, defined as the capacity and autonomy to act on one’s own behalf, because it provides control over one’s vulnerability to HIV and relief to women and men who may otherwise worry about whether their partners will use a condom, take antiretroviral therapy, or disclose their HIV status accurately. Planning for sexual and social goals in calm moments is also empowering. These highly desired collateral benefits of PrEP could be undermined, or eliminated, if PrEP is implemented in ways that are coercive or that foment fear of sexual risk compensation, drug resistance, toxicity, or moral judgment. Current PrEP implementation provides direct and indirect benefits that are highly desired.