HIV Treatment and Management

HIV Testing and Prevention

New rapid guidance: Six-month oral PrEP prescribing

Medical and nurse practitioners can now prescribe up to a six-month supply of oral PrEP in the form of tenofovir disoproxil + emtricitabine on a single prescription following changes to the PBS. Read the rapid guidance here.

What’s New (2025)

  • A Decision Making in HIV PEP tool now supplements the guidelines, providing a summary of the information required to prescribe PEP. 
  • Removal of the “very high prevalence population (MSM who inject drugs)” category from Table 2: PEP recommendations after NON-OCCUPATIONAL exposure. 
  • Removal of the “estimated HIV acquisition risk if source is viraemic, by population group” tables in Appendix A. 

HIV Treatment and Management

HIV Testing and Prevention

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