Doing patient-centredness versus achieving public health targets: A critical review of interactional dilemmas in ART adherence support

BC de Kok, S Widdicombe, A Pilnick, E Laurier - Social Science & Medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART) transformed HIV into a chronic disease but its individual and
public health benefits depend on high levels of adherence. The large and rising number of …

'It's just an excuse to slut around': gay and bisexual mens' constructions of HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis (Pr EP) as a social problem

M Pawson, C Grov - Sociology of Health & Illness, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Since the 2012 FDA approval of HIV Pre‐exposure Prophylaxis (Pr EP) as a method to
prevent HIV, its uptake among gay and bisexual men has been met with conflict. Drawing on …

Risk, reassurance and routine: a qualitative study of narrative understandings of the potential for HIV self-testing among men who have sex with men in England

TC Witzel, P Weatherburn, AJ Rodger, AH Bourne… - BMC Public Health, 2017 - Springer
Background HIV testing has seen a rapid evolution over the last decade with multiple
modalities now in use globally. In recent years HIV self-testing (HIVST) has been legalised …

DIY HIV prevention: formative qualitative research with men who have sex with men who source PrEP outside of clinical trials

S Paparini, W Nutland, T Rhodes, VK Nguyen… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with antiretroviral medication is an effective, evidence-
based option for HIV prevention. In England, issues of cost-effectiveness and of …

'PrEP is not ready for our community, and our community is not ready for PrEP': pre‐exposure prophylaxis for HIV for people who inject drugs and limits to the HIV …

A Guise, ER Albers, SA Strathdee - Addiction, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aims Pre‐exposure prophylaxis for HIV, or 'PrEP', is the use of antiretroviral
medicines by people who are HIV‐negative to protect themselves against acquiring HIV …

The non-positive antiretroviral gay body: the biomedicalisation of gay sex in England

A Martinez-Lacabe - Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Drawing on testimonies from oral history interviews, this paper analyses the implications of
pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) practices for gay men in England. Through perspectives on …

Access for all: contextualising HIV treatment as prevention in Swaziland

E Vernooij, M Mehlo, A Hardon, R Reis - AIDS care, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores how notions of the individual and population are evoked in two ongoing
HIV treatment as prevention (TasP) implementation studies in Swaziland. By contrasting …

Patterns of HIV testing practices among young gay and bisexual men living in Scotland: a qualitative study

N Boydell, K Buston, LM McDaid - BMC Public Health, 2017 - Springer
Background Increasing overall rates, and frequency, of HIV testing in populations at risk is a
key public health objective and a critical dimension of HIV prevention efforts. In the UK, men …

The long and winding road: Archiving and re-using qualitative data from 12 research projects spanning 16 years

C Dodds, P Keogh, A Bourne… - Sociological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
We describe a pilot project designed to assess the feasibility of re-use across 12 diverse
qualitative datasets related to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the UK, from research …

The People vs the NHS: Biosexual Citizenship and Hope in Stories of PrEP Activism

C Jones, I Young, N Boydell - Somatechnics, 2020 - euppublishing.com
Discourses of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) revel in its radical potential as a global HIV
prevention technology, offering a promise of change for the broader landscape of HIV …