This training is aimed at making it easy for healthcare professionals to provide both information about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and to signpost or refer onto sexual health services to access PrEP.
These services are an add-on to any HIV or sexual health work you already engage in.
The e-training will take you through a number of areas to help increase your knowledge of PrEP and also to support you working with people around this new tool in HIV prevention.
What this training covers
- HIV: the current situation in the UK.
- What is PrEP and how it’s taken.
- Why PrEP, who is it for and why we want to reach the communities we do.
- What a person considering PrEP needs to know about starting and taking it.
- How you can help.
- Case study examples.
- Checking your knowledge about PrEP (this section in development)
About some of the terms used in this training
Men and women/male and female: includes both cisgender people (whose gender identity matches the one they were assigned at birth) and trans/transgender people (whose gender identity is different from the one they were assigned at birth) that may identify as male or female.
Vaginal and frontal sex: frontal sex is the preferred term for many trans men, especially when they have not had lower surgery. Whenever vaginal sex is mentioned this includes frontal sex.
Neo-vagina: a vagina constructed during elective transition surgery for trans women.