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The daily pill asks a lot. We asked young Black women what they'd prefer instead.
Think about what daily oral PrEP actually demands: remember a pill every single day, keep the bottle somewhere safe, have an answer ready if someone asks what it's for. For young Black women in the South — who carry a heavy share of new HIV diagnoses — that's a lot to ask, and uptake shows it. So we asked 75 Black women, ages 18 to 34, in Atlanta, Baton Rouge, and Jackson: if you could prevent HIV without a daily pill, what would you pick? We walked them through three options
Damian Denson
Oct 72 min read
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