“Really just recognizing that women also have sex.”: A qualitative analysis of cisgender women’s self-reported barriers to accessing PrEP
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Authors
- Arielle Desir
- Devon Price
- Taiylar Ball
- Jonathan Purtle
- Rey Flores
- Don Operario
- Alison Goldberg
- Jennifer Pellowski
Institutions
- Hartford Hospital (US)
- Emory University (US)
- City University of New York (US)
- Loyola University Chicago (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Hunter College (US)
- Accenture (United States) (US)
- Center for Global Health (US)
- Hartford Financial Services (United States)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/olq.0000000000002416
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00