Taking post-exposure prophylaxis: Managing risk, reclaiming control

Abstract

The study described in this report is part of an ongoing prospective cohort study initiated to monitor implementation of guidelines recommending PEP for HIV in the context of non-occupational exposure in Australia. Interviews with 88 people explored the social and emotional contexts in which exposure had occured, participants understandings of safe sex, their experience with HIV and HIV-positive people, their physical and psychological experience of the treatment, and the impact that the availability of PEP may have on their sexual practices in the future.