The second focused on the impact of participants' social locations and perceptions of PrEP users based on their PrEP knowledge.
The first centred on the ineffectiveness of institutions in disseminating PrEP information to participants. Our analysis revealed two interrelated barriers to PrEP knowledge and uptake. race, sexual orientation), interacted with individual, interpersonal and community contexts to shape their understanding. Intersectionality and the social ecological model allowed us to explore how social locations (e.g. We interviewed twenty-two young men and used a constructivist grounded theory approach to qualitatively analyse these young men's PrEP knowledge.
While research has explored the factors associated with their higher HIV exposure and the efficacy of STI/HIV prevention programmes, there remains a paucity of research on their knowledge of HIV prevention strategies such as PrEP. Despite significant advances in the HIV treatment and prevention landscape such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), young Black-Canadian gay, bisexual and other sexual minority men continue to experience disproportionately high rates of HIV infection.
