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Returning home sampling kits for STI and HIV testing in people using a digital health HIV-PrEP pathway (PrEP-EmERGE)
  1. Annie Russell1,
  2. Sarah Tasker1,
  3. Kayleigh Nichols1,
  4. Marc Tweed2,
  5. Mary Darking3,
  6. Jennifer Whetham1,
  7. Daniel Richardson1,4
  1. 1 Sexual Health & HIV medicine, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton, UK
  2. 2 Terrence Higgins Trust, Brighton, UK
  3. 3 School of Humanities and Social Science Care, Health and Emotional Wellbeing Research and Enterprise Group, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
  4. 4 Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor Daniel Richardson, Sexual Health & HIV, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton BN2 5BE, UK; daniel.richardson7{at}nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2022-055724

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    Current standard of care for people using oral HIV-pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) involves face-to-face clinic appointments for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia (STI) testing every 3 months.1 Providing more convenient clinical pathways can help optimise HIV-PrEP as a prevention strategy.2 PrEP-EmERGE is an mHealth application (app) and digital pathway co-designed by users and clinicians to support and empower people using HIV-PrEP, and reduce the number of face-to-face clinic appointments.3 PrEP-EmERGE aims to support people using HIV-PrEP by providing users with secure access to their results (recent and historic), a diary function with medication reminders, vaccination history, details of upcoming appointments and a messaging system which facilitates communication from the clinic to the end user.3 We invite existing HIV-PrEP users who use a personal smartphone, do not require interventions for drug/alcohol dependence, have not previously had syphilis, and have completed hepatitis A, hepatitis B and human papilloma virus vaccinations to use PrEP-EmERGE. Starting in August 2021, as part of each …

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    • Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

    • Contributors DR designed this study; AR and ST collected the data; AR analysed the data; and AR, ST, KN, MT, MD, JW and DR all contributed to the final manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.