Positive Thoughts: Doctors Aren’t Offering Young People PrEP. That Has to Change

As a young person who identifies as nonbinary, meaning I do not identify within the gender binary, accessing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was a challenging quest. PrEP is a once-daily pill regimen that supports people in remaining HIV negative. Although I have been an organizer and advocate in support of LGBTQ youth for over five years in Philadelphia, I have only been aware of PrEP for about two years.
PrEP is extremely effective at preventing HIV transmission. So why is no one talking about it to young people?
In 2016, 21% of people newly diagnosed with HIV were age 24 or younger (about 40% of HIV diagnoses are in people under 30), and yet people under 25 were only 15% of all people...