Replication Data for: Provider perspectives on PrEP for adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania: The role of provider biases and quality of care

Document Type

Data Set

Publication Date

2018

Abstract

Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has the potential to reduce HIV acquisition among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa. However, health care providers’ (HCPs) perspectives and interactions with potential clients can substantially influence effective provision of quality health services. Findings show that qualitatively, HCPs acknowledged that biases, rooted in cultural norms, often result in stigmatizing and discriminatory care toward AGYW, a potential barrier for PrEP provision. Better training to provide HIV services was associated with greater willingness to prescribe PrEP. However, HCPs feared the potential negative impact of PrEP on the provision of existing HIV services (e.g., overburdened staff), and suggested the integration of PrEP into non-HIV services and the use of paramedical professionals to facilitate PrEP provision. The data presented here indicate that preparing for PrEP introduction a two-pronged strategy: addressing HCPs’ biases regarding sexual health services to AGYW; and preparing the health system infrastructure for the introduction of PrEP.

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DOI

10.7910/DVN/ZHZRMM

Language

English

Project

Reducing HIV Risk among Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Implementation Science around the DREAMS Initiative

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