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Atlanta health education effort aims to bolster access to HIV prevention medication

A significant number of new HIV infections happen among Black women in the South, but even doctors are not familiar with the medicines known as PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis. There’s a new health education effort in Atlanta to make sure they get access to HIV prevention medicines.

KFF Health News’ Sam Whitehead reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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