Community PrEP advocates from PrEPster and iwantPrEPnow welcomed NHS England’s announcement today that PrEP will be more widely available on the NHS in England. A new clinical trial will provide PrEP to at least 10,000 participants over the next three years, with a further rollout anticipated in the future. Both […]

Recruitment to Gilead’s new PrEP trial – the Discover trial – will commence in coming months, including in the UK. Team PrEPster have been part of international debates and discussions about the trial and, along with PrEP advocates from across Europe and North America, attended a meeting in New York […]

Do you want to learn more about new ways to prevent HIV? Come along to a FREE day about being a PrEP Champion in Black African and Caribbean communities in the UK. Come along and find out more about the case for treatment as prevention (TasP) and PrEP; discuss how […]

Team PrEPster spoke to Reuters and Reuters TV about how generic drugs are being used to prevent HIV. READ: Buyers clubs for cheaper drugs help fight hepatitis and HIV WATCH: Patients turn to ‘buyers clubs’ for cheap HIV drugs – Reuters TV

Community PrEP advocates from PrEPster and iwantPrEPnow (IWPN) today commended the decision by Gilead Sciences Ltd to donate 2,000 bottles of PrEP to PROUD trial participants.   Last month PROUD participants were being exited from the trial, leaving clinics with no further access to PrEP. Today Gilead announced a donation […]

** Deadline to submit a response – 23 September 2016 ** In August a High Court judge ruled that NHS England has the power to commission PrEP. That judgment means that NHS England has now re-started its public PrEP consultation process that was put on hold earlier this year. PrEPster, […]

PrEPster and I Want PrEP Now applauded the decision in the High Court today that ruled that NHS England acted unlawfully in withdrawing PrEP. In his ruling the judge stated, “NHS England has erred in deciding that is has no power or duty to commission preventative drugs in issue … […]

Community PrEP advocates today condemned the decision to discontinue providing PrEP to participants in the England PROUD trial. I Want PrEP Now (IWPN) and PrEPster called on NHS England and Public Health England (PHE) to implement an emergency policy to provide PrEP to PROUD participants, and to Gilead, the manufacturers […]

Community PrEP advocates from PrEPster and IWantPrEPNow, along with doctors, clinicQ and i-base have launched a new guide to safe use of PrEP bought online. The guide includes background information on PrEP; information on recommended tests to be taken before and during PrEP use; information on drug interactions; and tips […]

Community PrEP activists from PrEPster.info and I Want PreP Now today applauded the decision to extend provision of pre-exposure HIV prophylaxis (PrEP) drug Truvada to participants in the England PROUD study until June 2016.   Friday 19 February 2016 – For immediate release        Community PrEP activists applaud PROUD study decision and […]