FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Young Women in Africa Want Choices for HIV Protection

By Marie Rosenthal, MS

When able to make their own decisions, nearly all of the adolescent girls and young women who took part in a study accepted one of the two prevention products that were offered—the monthly dapivirine vaginal ring and emtricitabine-tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (FTC/TDF; Truvada, Gilead) as daily oral preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). 

In addition, the females were fairly adherent to their regimen, according to data presented at CROI 2022. Two-thirds of the females