Chen Yea-Hung, Snowden Jonathan M, McFarland Willi, Raymond H Fisher
San Francisco Department of Public Health, 25 Van Ness, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA, 94102, USA.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health and Sciences University Portland Oregon, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Mail Code: L-466, Portland, OR, 97239, USA.
AIDS Behav. 2016 Dec;20(12):2791-2797. doi: 10.1007/s10461-016-1357-2.
The Food and Drug Administration approved pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has presented PrEP as a prevention option for groups at high risk such as men who have sex with men (MSM). Intervention data provide some information on how PrEP affects sexual behavior of MSM in trials, open label extensions, or clinics. However, it is unclear whether sexual risk and preventive behavioral patterns are changing in the population as a whole as PrEP becomes more widely available, whether due to PrEP use or other factors. We examined trends in PrEP use, numbers of condomless anal sex partners, consistent condom use, and seroadaptive strategies in San Francisco-a city which has actively promoted PrEP-using data from National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS). NHBS recruited 1211, 383, 373, and 268 HIV-negative MSM in 2004, 2008, 2011, and 2014, respectively. PrEP use increased from zero in 2004, 2008, and 2011 to 9.6 % in 2014. The proportion of men with no condomless anal sex partners dropped from 60.6 % in 2004, to 58.2 % in 2008, to 54.2 % in 2011, to 40.2 % in 2014. Consistent condom use decreased from 36.8 % in 2004, and 30.5 % in 2008 and 2011, to 18.3 % in 2014. PrEP's introduction and scale-up enters in a pre-existing trend of decreasing condom use and increasing sexually transmitted infections among MSM which may be accelerating in recent years. While PrEP use should be scaled up as a prevention option among those who would benefit most, we believe that public health officials need to be realistic about the possibility that condom use could very well continue to decline as PrEP use increases, and to an extent that may not be directly or indirectly offset by PrEP.
美国食品药品监督管理局批准了暴露前预防(PrEP)用于预防艾滋病毒感染,美国疾病控制与预防中心已将PrEP作为男男性行为者(MSM)等高风险群体的一种预防选择。干预数据提供了一些关于PrEP在试验、开放标签扩展试验或诊所中如何影响男男性行为者性行为的信息。然而,随着PrEP的普及,整个群体的性风险和预防行为模式是否正在改变尚不清楚,这一改变是由于PrEP的使用还是其他因素所致。我们利用国家艾滋病毒行为监测(NHBS)的数据,研究了旧金山PrEP的使用趋势、无保护肛交性伴侣数量、持续使用避孕套情况以及血清适应性策略。旧金山是一个积极推广PrEP的城市。NHBS在2004年、2008年、2011年和2014年分别招募了1211名、383名、373名和268名艾滋病毒阴性的男男性行为者。PrEP的使用从2004年、2008年和2011年的零增长到2014年的9.6%。没有无保护肛交性伴侣的男性比例从2004年的60.6%降至2008年的58.2%,再降至2011年的54.2%,最后降至2014年的40.2%。持续使用避孕套的比例从2004年的36.8%、2008年和2011年的30.5%降至2014年的18.3%。PrEP的引入和推广处于男男性行为者中避孕套使用减少和性传播感染增加这一既存趋势之中,而这一趋势近年来可能正在加速。虽然应扩大PrEP在最能从中受益人群中的使用作为一种预防选择,但我们认为公共卫生官员需要现实地认识到,随着PrEP使用的增加,避孕套的使用很可能会继续下降,而且下降程度可能无法被PrEP直接或间接抵消。