Taking PrEP
“I didn’t think I was someone who needed it.”
The conversations that lead to PrEP.
Many people first hear about PrEP from a nurse, a pharmacist or a friend. These accounts, from people taking PrEP and professionals prescribing it across Europe, show how those conversations happen.
Taking PrEP · Manchester, UK
Why I take PrEP
“The first time I asked for PrEP, I rehearsed the sentence on the bus.”
Read the storyProfessional · Seine-Saint-Denis, France
The patient I almost didn’t ask
“For years I offered PrEP to men and waited for women to bring it up.”
Read the storyAcross Europe
Taking PrEP
“Why did nobody tell me before?”
Professional
“I offered it to men for years. Women, I waited for them to ask.”
Taking PrEP
“I was annoyed nobody had mentioned it.”
Professional
“I used to skip the customers who seemed settled.”
Taking PrEP
“It was the first time I saw it in my language.”
Professional
“I thought it was too complicated for the women I see.”
Taking PrEP
“The condom broke, and I panicked.”
Professional
“PrEP changed the conversation in the room.”
Professional
“Free whatever your papers. We say that first.”
Taking PrEP
“My first question was who else would know.”
Professional
“The people we worried about stayed the longest.”
These are composite, illustrative accounts. Names and details are changed. Each one is based on published research or testimony, linked under the account. Real stories, shared with consent, will be added over time.