Jan 31, 2025 · HIV PEP, or post-exposure prophylaxis, is a short course of HIV medicines taken very soon after a possible exposure to HIV to prevent the virus from taking hold in your body. You must start it within 72 hours (3 days) after a possible exposure to HIV, or it won’t work. Every hour counts! PEP should be used only in emergency situations.

Feb 10, 2025 · PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) is the use of antiretroviral medication to prevent HIV in a person without HIV who may have been recently exposed to HIV. Exposure typically occurs through sex or sharing syringes (or other injection equipment) with someone who has or might have HIV.

PEP medications are antiretroviral drugs that work by preventing HIV from making more copies of itself. Each medication uses a different method or stops HIV at a different point in its replication process.

PEP is a series of pills you can start taking very soon after you’ve been exposed to HIV that lowers your chances of getting it. But you have to start PEP within 72 hours, or 3 days, after you were exposed to HIV, or it won’t work.

Sep 12, 2024 · Post-exposure prophylaxis, or PEP, is a course of two or three drugs that will lower your chance of infection if you've been exposed to HIV. Learn about who PEP is for, when you should take...

Oct 31, 2022 · Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) refers to medication that’s taken after a potential exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This treatment helps people who are HIV-negative make sure they stay negative.

Nov 20, 2024 · PrEP is medicine that can reduce this risk. It can either be a pill that you take every day or an injection that you get every two months. With PrEP, if you do get exposed to HIV, the medicine can stop HIV from taking hold and spreading throughout your body. PEP stands for post-exposure prophylaxis.

Nov 1, 2024 · PEP is a way to use HIV meds AFTER sex to try to prevent HIV infection. This usually involves taking a combination of three daily oral meds for 28 days. Sometimes two or three of these meds will be in a single pill. Any 3-drug ART combination can be used as PEP so long as it does not contain abacavir or an NNRTI.

Dec 2, 2024 · PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) is medicine that prevents HIV after a possible exposure. PEP must be started within 72 hours (3 days) after a recent possible exposure to HIV. Talk right away to your health care provider, an emergency room doctor, or an urgent care provider about PEP if you think you've recently been exposed to HIV:

Mar 31, 2025 · PEP refers to the use of HIV medicines to prevent HIV infection within 72 hours (3 days) after a possible exposure. PEP should be used only in emergency situations and is not meant for regular use by people who may be exposed to HIV frequently.