PrEP in Europe

Why?

The PrEP in Europe Initiative was set up to fill a gap in campaigning and policy around HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Europe.

What?

The PrEP in Europe Initiative is a partnership of eight HIV prevention and policy organisations that work in Europe: AIDES, AIDS Action Europe, AVAC, the Eurasian Coalition on Male Health (ECOM), the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), NAM/Aidsmap, the National AIDS Trust and PrEPster

With whom?

PrEP in Europe is community partnership that also consult with advisors drawn from organisations such as the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, and The European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC).

How?

It operates at four levels:

• Information: provision on information the science, provision, cost and usage of PrEP throughout Europe. As well as providing content itself it also supports “knowledge exchange” on PrEP.
• Advocacy: Build the skills and knowledge of advocates by providing advocacy materials and helping people in national campaigns to exchange ideas.
• Policy: challenge the institutional division between healthcare and public health seen in many health systems, and challenges received wisdom that influencing risk behaviour is the only effective and ethical way of prevention HIV.
• Networking: a centralised site where people involved in advocating for the wider availability of PrEP can meet, exchange ideas, and gain strength from each other’s good examples.

For what outcome?

The PrEP in Europe Initiative dedicated to increasing access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) throughout the European region.