Welcome To Your Guide For PrEP, PEP, & HIV Prevention

PrEP is a tablet when taken daily can reduce the risk of HIV infection by over 99%. To be most effective the it is recommended to take the tablet on a regular basis ie. each day.

Life can be hectic and for some a daily tablet can be tricky. A study at the City University of New York School of Public Health has identified 6 different ways to help ensure you are remembering your daily tablet:

Huge kudos to the team at Prepster.info – a PrEP advocacy group in the UK who worked with The Terrence Higgins Trust to test the quality of multiple generic PrEP tablets sold by six online generic PrEP pharmacies.

What were the outcomes? I’ll let the team at Prepster tell you:

What online PrEP pharmacies were tested?

• All Day Chemist – https://www.alldaychemist.com/
• Dynamix – http://www.purchase-prep.com/
• Green Cross Pharmacy – http://www.greencrosspharmacy.online/
• In House Pharmacy – https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu
• Silom Pulse – https://www.pulse-clinic.com/
• United Pharmacy – https://www.unitedpharmacies-uk.md/

The results? –

Fourteen different bottles of PrEP from online suppliers were tested. In addition, Truvada and PrEP from the England IMPACT Trial was also tested.  The results showed that there’s no evidence of fake PrEP in any of the samples we obtained across the summer of 2018 from any of the six suppliers.

Wow! What a weekend… I’ve been locked away working on helping ensure that PrEP is an international language!

The PrEP consent video is now updated to meet the current 2018 guidelines but more exciting is that they have been translated into 26 different languages including captions on the video! Check it out 🙂

Now while I wish I spoke all these languages, I have had to start with using machine translations, so I ask if you seen anything funky could you please send me an email and let me know?

Hey guys. It’s Dr. George here, and I’ve had a few inquiry from patients as well as people mentioning online, so I thought I’d make a quick video just to explain and answer these questions.

PrEP now that it’s available on the PBS. There have been some concerns about a change in the colour and the shape of the tablet.

So, there are three different versions of PrEP that are available under the PBS here in Australia.

Just received the question about whether PrEP protocols are going to change now that PrEP medications are covered under the Australian PBS?

To answer the question, no. All people on PrEP will still need regular STI screening and health checks every 3 months.

It’s important to get a quarterly appointment with your doctor for a new script and the following recommended testing:

• Throat & anal swabs as well as a urine test for Gonorrhoea & Chlamydia.
• Blood tests for HIV, Syphilis, hepatitis C as well as a health check of your kidneys.

I hope this helps clear up any questions.

Intermittent PrEP  also called “PrEP on demand” is a way to take PrEP medication if you find your level of sexual activity is infrequent, your risk of exposure is only for short periods of time – such as travel, or you have significant side effects from PrEP that make taking daily tablets undesirable. (1)

The iPerGay study showed that short term use of Truvada PrEP can be effective using the following schedule (2) for CIS males who have sex with other men:

How Is PrEP & Treatment As Prevention (TAsP) Different?

What is the difference between treatment as prevention and PrEP?

These are two important concepts when it comes to HIV, but also HIV prevention.
It is important that people are aware of the differences between the two.

Hey Guys & Gals, just wanted to share this great new educational campaign created in collaboration between The Institute Of Many and Dynamix International.

Reinforcing the message that U = U

When HIV is Undetectable, then it’s Untransmittable. Zero risk, and that’s a fact.

While the evidence has been out for a long time we know that successful treatment with HIV medications not only has huge health benefits for the person living with HIV, we also know that it makes HIV impossible to be passed on.

In this video I wanted to explain the best way to take PrEP when travelling, in particular when you are crossing time zones.

As noted in previous videos, Truvada for PrEP is a robust treatment and occasional changes in time of dosing will not have a major impact on it’s protection against HIV.

I recommend all people continue to take the medication at the same time they would normally take the  medication.

In this video I just wanted to share how to quickly check for any interactions between PrEP and prescription medications you may be taking.

While Truvada (Tenofovir & Emtricitabine) are a well tolerated medication there are a few drugs that can interact. In particular, medications that can affect the kidneys are always worth checking with your doctor.

The site I recommend to check for drug interactions is the University of Liverpools site: