Changing attitudes to and engagement with biomedical HIV prevention by gay and bisexual men: key findings from the PrEPARE Project 2017

Abstract

The PrEPARE Project is a repeated, cross-sectional study of Australian gay and bisexual men’s (GBM) attitudes to biomedical HIV prevention, particularly pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and HIV treatment as prevention (TasP). The study was first conducted in 2011, and has been repeated every two years since then (Lea et al., 2015). The main method of data collection is a national, online survey of Australian GBM, primarily advertised through Facebook. The study website can be seen at http://prepareproject.csrh.org This report focuses on the 2017 survey results, but also includes analyses of change over time in key measures, such as willingness to use PrEP and belief that HIV treatment prevents transmission.