HIV Prevention Materials

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) are important tools for preventing HIV. The materials below contain information for health care providers and their patients about how to determine if PrEP or PEP should be prescribed. They also provide information on how to access, prescribe, use, and pay for PrEP and PEP. Prescribe HIV Prevention.

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Materials for You and Your Practice
Materials for Your Patients

Materials for You and Your Practice

Clinicians' Quick Guide: What is HIV PrEP? (Brochure)

This brochure highlights pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as a powerful tool for preventing HIV and answers some of health care providers’ frequently asked questions about how to prescribe PrEP and how PrEP can improve health outcomes for their patients.

Clinicians' Quick Guide: What is Oral HIV PrEP? (Brochure)

This brochure provides an overview of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), prescribing information, and guidance on baseline and ongoing assessments for your patients.

Clinicians' Quick Guide: What is Injectable HIV PrEP? (Brochure)

This brochure provides an overview of injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), prescribing information, and guidance on baseline and ongoing assessments for your patients.

Clinicians' Quick Guide: Discussing Sexual Health With Your Patients (Brochure)

Clinicians' Quick Guide: Discussing Sexual Health Your Patients (Brochure)

This brochure supplies health care providers with information on the importance of discussing their patients’ sexual history and behaviors and offers practical tips for normalizing and destigmatizing conversations about sexual health.

PrEP Is Changing the HIV Conversation (Poster)

This waiting room poster highlights PrEP as a tool patients can use to protect themselves against HIV and encourages them to talk to their health care provider about HIV prevention options. It also directs patients to CDC’s website to access more information about PrEP. This poster is available in both English and Spanish.

Share the Night, Not HIV (Poster)

This waiting room poster highlights that PrEP can protect patients against HIV, even if their partner(s) might have HIV. It also directs patients to CDC’s website to learn more about PrEP. This poster is available in both English and Spanish.

PEP for HIV Prevention: FAQs (Brochure)

This brochure reviews PEP, a method to prevent HIV after a patient has a specific, high-risk exposure to HIV, and answers health care providers’ frequently asked questions about how to prescribe PEP and how PEP can help protect their patients from HIV.

Clinician’s Quick Guide: PrEP for the Prevention of HIV Infection in the U.S.: 2021 Guideline Summary (Brochure)

This brochure supplies health care providers with a guideline summary of the latest information on prescribing PrEP for HIV prevention to their patients and increasing PrEP use by people who could benefit from it.

Materials for Your Patients

Now’s the Time to Find Out About PrEP and PEP (Brochure)

This brochure for patients describes how PrEP and PEP can help protect them against HIV, even if their partner(s) might have HIV. It also includes useful tips on how they can communicate with their health care providers about PrEP and PEP.

PrEP Medication Guide: Reduce Your Risk of Getting HIV (Brochure)

This patient brochure reviews important information on PrEP, including how PrEP works to prevent HIV, the side effects they might experience, how to pay for PrEP, and how to access other PrEP resources.

PrEP Is for Women (Brochure)

This patient brochure reviews important information on how women and other people who have receptive vaginal sex can stay HIV negative, even if their partner(s) might have HIV. It offers tips on what questions women and other people who have receptive vaginal sex can ask their health care providers about PrEP.

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