By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Programs that promote and distribute pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV should be based on equity rather than equality, according to Patrick S. Sullivan, DVM, PhD, ACVPM (Epi), the Charles Howard Chandler Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public health, Emory University, in Atlanta.
“Prevention programs should be guided by PrEP equity metrics that take into account both the use and the need, and not by PrEP equality metrics—looking to get