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Medicaid Patients Lag in PrEP Adherence

Publish date:: April 4, 2019

Key clinical point: Medicaid patients need extra help to to stay on PrEP. Others do, too.

Major finding: Commercially insured patients stuck with PrEP a median of 14.5 months, versus a median Medicaid adherence of 7.6 months.

Study details: Review of over 7,000 PrEP users

Disclosures: The work was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The investigators had no disclosures.

Citation:

Huang YA et al. CROI 2019, Abstract 106.

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