Urgent appeal to allow all professional nurses and midwives to prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in South Africa

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Division of Infectious Diseases, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, USA; Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa. dvora.josephdavey@uct.ac.za.
• ² Centre for Infectious Disease and Epidemiological Research, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; International AIDS Society, Johannesburg, South Africa. lynne.susan.wilkinson@gmail.com.
• ³ International AIDS Society, Johannesburg, South Africa. anna.grimsrud@iasociety.org.
• ⁴ Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa. aurelie.haw1@gmail.com.
• ⁵ Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. Graya1@ukzn.ac.za.
• ⁶ Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS, Johannesburg, South Africa. yvetteraphael8@gmail.com.
• ⁷ Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, Johannesburg, South Africa. camilla@sahivcs.org.
• ⁸ Division of Health Systems and Public Health, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. yogan.pillay@gatesfoundation.org.
• ⁹ Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Linda-Gail.Bekker@hiv-research.org.za.