Anthropology · Vol. 3, No. 1 · 2018 · pp. e1–e3 · e-ISSN 2473-4772

The Urgency of Expanding Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Global HIV Reduction

Douglas A. Feldman

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Brockport, 350 New Campus Drive, Brockport, NY 14420, USAUnited States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17140/antpoj-3-e004 · Published 2018-08-04 · Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 · © 2018 The Author(s)

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Abstract

Globally, an estimated 76.1 million persons have become infected with HIV since the start of the epidemic, with 35 million having died from AIDS-related illnesses. In spite of 19.1 billion dollars spent annually in low- and middle-income countries, with most of those funds going toward the provision of antiretroviral medications, only 56.9 percent of all HIV-infected persons are receiving these medications.

Acknowledgement

I would like to thank Dr. William Valenti, Ashley Zuppelli, and the staff of Trillium Health – the AIDS service center of Rochester, NY for introducing me to their excellent PrEP program in preparation for this editorial.

Dr. Feldman is a Professor Emeritus and former Department Chair of Anthropology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, and is the former President of the Society for Medical Anthropology. He is the author/editor of seven books, and has conducted AIDS social and epidemiologic research in Hungary, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia.

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