Guideline

Southern African HIV Clinicians Society 2023 Guideline for post-exposure prophylaxis: Updated recommendations

Jaco Horak, Willem D.F. Venter, Camilla Wattrus, Nectarios Papavarnavas, Pauline Howell, Gillian Sorour, Carole Wallis, Katherine Gill, Francesca Conradie, Linda-Gail Bekker
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine | Vol 24, No 1 | a1522 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v24i1.1522 | © 2023 Jaco Horak, Willem D.F. Venter, Camilla Wattrus, Nectarios Papavarnavas, Pauline Howell, Gillian Sorour, Carole Wallis, Katherine Gill, Francesca Conradie, Linda-Gail Bekker | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 15 August 2023 | Published: 28 September 2023

About the author(s)

Jaco Horak, The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Willem D.F. Venter, Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Camilla Wattrus, Southern African HIV Clinicians Society (SAHCS), Johannesburg, South Africa
Nectarios Papavarnavas, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Pauline Howell, Clinical HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Gillian Sorour, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Carole Wallis, BARC-SA and Lancet Laboratories, Johannesburg, South Africa
Katherine Gill, The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Francesca Conradie, Clinical HIV Research Unit, Wits Health Consortium, Johannesburg, South Africa; Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and Helen Joseph Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa
Linda-Gail Bekker, The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Abstract

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Keywords

post-exposure prophylaxis; PEP; HIV; human immunodeficiency virus; prevention, post- exposure; antiretroviral

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