This (12 minute) educational video takes a look at PrEP, a prevention strategy for people at high risk for contracting HIV. Researchers at the University of California explain how pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) works as they describe a four-year, multi-pronged demonstration project with gay men in Los Angeles and San Diego. 
"It's good, but it's tedious..."
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG GAY MEN IN THE U.S.
Are you a young gay man living in the United States between the ages of 15 and 17? Are you interested in new methods of preventing HIV, like PrEP?
Project PrEPare is an innovative HIV prevention study designed to explore the safety, acceptability and feasibility of PrEP among young gay men and other men who have sex with men who are at risk for HIV infection in the United States.
The study is taking place at clinical sites across the U.S. in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, New Orleans, Boston and Denver. Click here to quickly check if you are eligible to participate.
More information about the study and city-specific contact information can be found on the Project PrEPare website.
As a licensed therapist working with people living with HIV, Damon Jacobs heard about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as an HIV prevention strategy. When he found himself newly single after being out of the dating game for almost a decade, he re-entered a dating pool that was not at all condom-friendly. To deal with this, and to finally come to terms with his distaste for condoms, Damon began taking PrEP in July 2011 to stay HIV negative.Read the rest of the interview on TheBody.com. Watch Damon below :)
Now, almost two years later, he's never missed a single dose -- and he's become an advocate for education around PrEP, though he acknowledges that it may not be the right strategy for everyone. From dispelling myths around anti-condom attitudes to advocating that people be able to talk to their doctors about all aspects of their sex life, Damon reminds us that sex isn't dirty, and we can have sexual pleasure, but we have to be smart and know our own bodies.
I wake up; I have my breakfast; I have my vitamins; I have my coffee. That was already an established routine in my adult life. Those are important things I do to take care of myself and start the day right. PrEP was just one thing to add into that. It wasn't anything that was inconvenient. It hasn't been something I've forgotten. It's just with the vitamins now. It's on the same little thing that the vitamins sit on, so I don't forget.
