Medication adherence and its associated factors among oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) users in China: The Real-world E-consumer Cohort of PrEP study
The study found PrEP adherence was low among ED PrEP users who account for the majority of real-world e-consumers in China. Targeted interventions are suggested to prioritize enhancing users' understanding of medication instructions, promoting self-efficacy of maintaining adherence, and alleviating PrEP-related stigma. Additional attention should be given to ED users who have chemsex, insertive anal sex, multiple sexual partners, or a younger age.
Authors
- Yutong Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4728-3405)
- Sitong Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7450-5613)
- Yuhang Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-2674)
- Qingyu Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3385-8815)
- Siwen Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2909-1624)
- Chunqing Lin
- Jiayin Zheng
- Jie Xu
- Houlin Tang
- Jingtao Zhou
- Chi Ruan
- Huachun Zou
- Jiaqi Cheng
- Zhiyi Zhao
- Min Zhang
- Hui Xue
Institutions
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Fudan University (CN)
- Digital China Health (China) (CN)
- Neurobehavioral Systems (US)
- Vanke (China) (CN)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS Medicine
- Published
- 2026-02-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004733
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00