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HIV Infection: Drugs

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 1961, tabled on 14 November 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to increase accessibility to pre-exposure prophylaxis.

Answered on

20 November 2023

The HIV Action Plan Implementation Steering Group (ISG) is developing a roadmap to help guide our efforts to improve equitable access, uptake and use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to meet the needs of key populations at significant risk of HIV. This forms part of the group’s work to monitor and drive forward the implementation of the HIV Action Plan.

HIV PrEP is currently only prescribed at specialist sexual health services, but as we work towards our 2030 ambitions, we will explore opportunities for making it available in a variety of settings. The roadmap is expected to be made available by the ISG by the end of the year.