Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Correspondence to Dr S Wilson Beckham; s. Qualitative findings revealed generally positive reactions to all types of PrEP, and they were viewed as a welcome backup to condoms.
Participants had concerns about pills burden of daily use, stigma from clients , and the vaginal ring fear of client noticing and becoming suspicious, fear of infertility and overall preferred LA-PrEP less frequent use, easy to hide, belief in higher efficacy. This analysis used a sequential, explanatory mixed-methods design, triangulating survey and interview data. This study was embedded in a parent project, a community-randomised controlled trial with years of developing relationships with community members, including a community advisory board made up of female sex workers.
Participants did not have the opportunity to actually try pre-exposure prophylaxis products, but were shown pictures, given explanation and given opportunity to ask questions. Pre-exposure prophylaxis PrEP is an efficacious biomedical intervention, 6 and is a promising though neglected tool for HIV prevention for cisgender women, and in particular, for FSW. This is a sequential, explanatory, mixed-methods study 32 embedded in a longitudinal cohort of FSW participating in Project Shikamana, a community-randomised trial of a community empowerment-based combination HIV prevention intervention in Iringa, Tanzania.
The qualitative phase involved explanatory follow-up in-depth interviews IDI and focus group discussions FGD with select cohort participants, collected in August—November Before participation, oral informed consent was obtained from all participants separately for quantitative and qualitative data collection.
A community advisory board consisting of 10 FSW from the community was convened to provide feedback and advice on conduct of the parent study. The methods, cohort demographic characteristics, and baseline survey results of Project Shikamana are published elsewhere. The survey measured demographic, behavioural, and sociostructural factors related to sex work and HIV prevention and treatment. The primary outcome of this substudy was overall acceptability of PrEP.
