Demonstrating Safety and Effective Delivery of Daily Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Sex Workers in India

The demonstration project will use a prospective cohort design, enrolling individuals and following them up at multiple intervals over the course of 16 months. Study participants will be asked to take one tablet of Truvada daily, as HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, over this period. They will be asked to attend 7 regular visits at the project sites over the course of the project. In between visits, they will receive peer educator home visits every other day, as part of regular DMSC (Kolkata) and Ashodaya (Mysore/Mandya) outreach prevention activities. We plan to enroll 2000 female sex workers equally split between the two sites.