Katherine Gill, Leigh Johnson, Janan Dietrich, Landon Myer, Rebecca Marcus, Melissa Wallace, Tanya Pidwell, Eve Mendel, Lauren Fynn, Kai Jones, Lubbe Wiesner, Catherine Slack, Ann Strode, Hans Spiegel, Sybil Hosek, James Rooney, Glenda Gray, Linda-Gail Bekker
BACKGROUND: HIV incidence among adolescents in southern Africa remains unacceptably high. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective HIV prevention intervention but there are few data on its implementation among adolescents. We aimed to investigate the safety, feasibility, and acceptability of PrEP with oral tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention package in an adolescent population in South Africa. METHODS: This open-label single-arm phase 2 study (PlusPills) was done in two research clinics in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa...
December 2020: Lancet Child & Adolescent Health