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You also need to take PrEP every day for 7 days before having condomless sex, to reach protective drug levels.
You need to take PrEP every day because PrEP does not get into the vaginal tissues as quickly as it gets into rectal tissues. PrEP and vaginal or frontal sexįor vaginal/frontal sex, you need to take daily PrEP. If you are missing doses regularly, please discuss this with your healthcare provider. You should discuss this with your healthcare provider immediately. If you have missed more than 3 doses of PrEP in the week and had condomless sex, you may need PEP. If this happens you should make an appointment to see your healthcare provider. If you miss more doses than this, you are not going to be protected against HIV if you are having condomless sex. Once you are established on daily PrEP, if you occasionally miss 1 or 2 doses, protection will still be very high.įor anal sex, you must at the very least have taken PrEP for 4 days a week to have good protection. If you miss a PrEP doseĭaily PrEP allows some flexibility for anal sex.
This is to make sure that the drug levels are high enough to be protective.Ĭontinue taking one tablet of PrEP per day, every day. When you start taking PrEP, you need to take 2 tablets of PrEP between 2 and 24 hours before anal sex. If you miss a dose, don’t stop PrEP, just continue taking it once you remember. You should try and take PrEP at the same time every day. For people who routinely have sex at least once a week, daily PrEP is likely to be a better dosing option. This means you do not have to plan when to have sex. Taking PrEP every day will make sure that there are protective drug levels in vaginal and anal tissue, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Once you start taking PrEP, you need to be tested and monitored regularly. As the body takes a while to absorb medicines, this means PrEP needs to be taken both before sex and for several days afterwards. For PrEP to be most effective, the medicine needs to be at protective levels at the time that HIV exposure may happen.