Accessibility and Uptake of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention in the Veterans Health Administration.

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is the Deputy Director and the National Infectious Diseases Officer for the Veterans Health Administration, Office of Specialty Care Services, HIV, Hepatitis, and Related Conditions Programs (HHRC). and are Data Analysts for the HHRC Data and Analytics Group and Data Analysts for the Health Services Research and Development at VA Puget Sound Healthcare System. is a Staff Physician and the Director of the VA National Liver Disease Database at VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, the Director of the HHRC Data Analytics Group, and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. is a Staff Physician in the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Division of Infectious Diseases at Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, both in Cleveland, Ohio. is an Investigator at the Center for Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation at Iowa City VA Health Care System and an Associate Professor in the University of Iowa Department of Medicine. is a staff physician in the Infectious Diseases Section of the VA Portland Healthcare System and an Assistant Professor, at Oregon Health and Sciences University in the Division of Infectious Diseases, both in Portland.

Published: March 2018

To increase access, the National PrEP Working Group is expanding outreach outside of primary care and among nonspecialists, ensuring uniformly high-quality care and targeting high-risk populations.

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