
The PrEP initiative has 3 core components focused on providers, users, and measuring impact.
Improved user knowledge and access
- Broad-based education campaign to reach into heavily impacted communities
- User hotline for information, resources
- Website as “one-stop shop” of local and national resources and information
- Affordability program including navigators to assist potential users with insurance and provider choice, access to co-pay/deductible/payment assistance
- Speakers bureau of PrEP users
- Programs to support PrEP adherence
Increased provider capacity
- Support for public-access PrEP clinics
- Training, resources for providers in diverse fields (primary care, Ob/Gyn, pediatrics, psychiatry)
- Warm line for providers
- Online tools
- Cultural humility training for providers
Tracking PrEP uptake and impact
- Measure PrEP use citywide (including demographics and behavior of PrEP users, duration of use, type of PrEP)
- Track potential negative consequences (e.g., breakthrough infections, resistance, social harms, STIs, difficulty accessing PrEP)
- Track potential benefit (e.g., impact on HIV incidence, access to comprehensive health services for PrEP users)
- Track sexual and injection behaviors over time
- Track PrEP- and HIV-associated stigma
- Measure cost to providers, payers, users
PrEP Committee Resources

Resources for people interested in PrEP
Visit Injectable HIV Medications and PrEP – for resources compiled by East Bay Getting to Zero
- PrEP Basics Fact Sheet – San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Lo Esencial de PrEP – San Francisco Department of Public Health
- San Francisco City Clinic – PrEP Information
Resources for PrEP providers
Visit Injectable HIV Medications and PrEP – for resources compiled by East Bay Getting to Zero
- Injectable HIV PrEP Pocket Card – by San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Prescribing oral PrEP Pocket Card – by San Francisco Department of Public Health
- [Protocol] SF WPIC/Street Medicine Open Access Clinic: Long-Acting Injectable PrEP (IM Cabotegravir)
- *2021* Ask about PrEP: How providers can prescribe PrEP to prevent HIV and reduce health disparities – San Francisco Department of Public Health
- San Francisco City Clinic PrEP Section
- SFCC PrEP Navigation Services Protocol (v. 12/7/18) – San Francisco City Clinic
- PrEP Navigation Manual: Helping People Access Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis – PleasePrEPMe.org and Project Inform
- Ayudando A Las Personas a Tener Acceso A La Profilaxis Anterior a la Exposición (en Español) – PleasePrEPMe.org and Project Inform
- San Francisco Health Network Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Management Guidelines, June 2016
PrEP News & Updates
Latest from PrEP Committee
First-of-Its-Kind Lawsuit from Gay Man Denied Insurance Because He’s on PrEP
Earlier this week, the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD, not to be confused with GLAAD) filed a claim with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination charging that Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company discriminated against a gay man when they denied him long-term care insurance because he’s taking Truvada as PrEP. This is the first…