PRESS RELEASE Embargoed until 00:01 – Friday 2 February 2024  “Getting a clinic appointment in London, it’s like gold dust“ Access to the HIV prevention drug PrEP is being hampered by clinic appointment access according to new research launched today by PrEPster at The Love Tank. HIV PrEP – provided by the NHS […]

17 October 2023 PrEPster at The Love Tank today joins over 40 other European and global organisations calling for the introduction of long acting injectable PrEP. A new Community Manifesto for Long-Acting PrEP, produced by PrEPster at The Love Tank, along with HIV organisations AIDES (France), AIDS Action Europe, EATG, […]

  New research released today (Thursday 3 November 2022) reveals that two thirds (65%) of people who want to access the HIV prevention drug PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) struggled to do so.  Five years ago, after a court case won by National Aids Trust, the HIV prevention drug, PrEP, became available […]

PrEPster salutes the decision by the USA’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve the new injectable formulation of PrEP. The approval, made late on 20 December 2021, marks a new era, making available a formulation of PrEP that will be used by new generations of people who can benefit […]

PrEPster welcomes the announcement by the Department of Health and Social Care of funding to enable a roll out of PrEP across England. The announcement comes as HIV prevention activists have raised increasing concerns about PrEP availability, as the PrEP IMPACT Trial moves to its close. PrEPster salutes and applauds […]

PrEPster welcomes today’s commitment from NHS England to fund additional places on the England PrEP IMPACT Trial. The IMPACT Trial was launched in October 2017, with the 13,000 places on the Trial rapidly filling up. Trial researchers have made a request for places on the Trial to be increased to […]

PrEPster’s 5 Things to know about the IMPACT Trial website has been Highly Commended by the British Medical Association’s Patient Information Awards. The website, along with accompanying video and small resource, was launched to assist potential participants in the England IMPACT Trial to be ‘trial ready’. Judges commented that it […]

Other gay men who use PrEP are the biggest source of information and support for men who are buying PrEP online, according to new research published today. The research, undertaken among gay men in London in summer 2017, was conducted by researchers at The Graduate Institute of International and Development […]

Large parts of England are not being reached with PrEP health promotion activity according to a new mapping exercise undertaken by Public Health England, in partnership with PrEPster. NHS sexual health organisations and community-based organisations were asked to complete on online survey during March 2018. The survey allowed organisations to […]

A group of 32 charities and community groups, including PrEPster, National AIDS Trust, and Terrence Higgins Trust have come together to demand NHS England and local authority commissioners ensure PrEP is routinely available in sexual health clinics by 1 April 2019 at the latest. A large-scale PrEP trial is currently […]