Brief Report: Medication Sharing Is Rare Among African HIV-1 Serodiscordant Couples Enrolled in an Efficacy Trial of Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV-1 Prevention

J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2017 Jun 1;75(2):184-189. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000001356.

Abstract

Sharing of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medications is a concern for PrEP implementation. For HIV-1 serodiscordant couples, sharing may undermine the HIV-1 prevention benefit and also cause antiretroviral resistance if taken by HIV-1 infected partners. Within a PrEP efficacy trial among HIV-1 serodiscordant couples, we assessed the occurrence of PrEP sharing by self-report and plasma tenofovir concentrations in HIV-1 infected partners. PrEP sharing was self-reported at <0.01% of visits, and 0%-1.6% of randomly selected and 0% of purposively selected specimens from HIV-1 infected participants had detectable tenofovir concentrations (median: 66.5 ng/mL, range: 1.3-292 ng/mL). PrEP sharing within HIV-1 serodiscordant couples was extremely rare.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial, Phase III
  • Randomized Controlled Trial

MeSH terms

  • Anti-HIV Agents
  • Black People
  • Family Characteristics*
  • Female
  • HIV Infections / prevention & control*
  • HIV Seronegativity / drug effects*
  • HIV Seropositivity / transmission*
  • HIV-1 / drug effects*
  • Humans
  • Kenya / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Medication Adherence / statistics & numerical data*
  • Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis*
  • Prescription Drug Misuse / statistics & numerical data*
  • Risk-Taking
  • Uganda / epidemiology

Substances

  • Anti-HIV Agents