Actively Countering Health Disparities to Improve PrEP Uptake

CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

English - May 31, 2024 16:11 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MB
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In this episode, Roger Bedimo, MD, MS, FACP, discusses strategies to overcome health disparities to improve PrEP uptake, including:

Targeting key populations that would benefit from PrEP but have low rates of uptake, such as transgender women and people who inject drugsAddressing intersectionalityOvercoming implicit biasAddressing PrEP inequity by geographic regionExpanding PrEP uptake by expanding HCPs who prescribe itImproving PrEP education for both patients and HCPs

Presenter:
Roger Bedimo, MD, MS, FACP
Professor of Medicine
Interim Director, Office of Global Health
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Chief, Infectious Diseases Section
VA North Texas Health Care System
Dallas, Texas

Content based on an online CME program supported by an independent educational grant from ViiV Healthcare.

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