What Healthcare Providers Need to Know About the New HIV PrEP Guidelines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 34,800 people were newly infected with HIV in 2019, and 1.2 million people in the country are living with HIV.^[1] CDC released Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection in the United States — 2021 Update: A Clinical Practice Guideline on December 8, 2021. This update gives healthcare providers the latest guidance on prescribing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)—a powerful tool for HIV prevention—to their patients.

If you are a licensed provider, you can prescribe PrEP to prevent HIV infection in your patients. CDC estimates that 1