Are Louisiana Pharmacists PrEPared? Implementing Training and an Active PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) Prescribing Surveillance Program to Achieve Equity in Pharmacy Based PrEP Prescribing in Louisiana

Summary

Though broadening PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) availability to Louisiana pharmacies addresses key access issues for Louisiana's population, there is no current baseline data which explore current pharmacist and pharmacies' capacity to effectively provide PrEP therapy to patients who meet PrEP prescribing criteria. This study aims to explore1) Louisiana pharmacist and pharmacy capacity to provide PrEP under a state-based collaborative practice agreement, 2) a validated pharmacist education system addressing health disparities in PrEP prescribing and 3) the impact of state pharmacy based policies on equitable PrEP prescribing. Our central hypothesis is pharmacist trained in PrEP prescribing focusing on health disparities and implicit bias education and working with mentors in an implementation framework will have an increase in equitable PrEP prescribing

Description

Eligibility

Age range

24–99 years

Sex

All

Healthy volunteers

Not specified

Interventions

• Other
  Education and Mentoring for Prescribing Pharmacists

  Pharmacists enrolled in the PrEP prescribing cohort will receive implicit bias, health disparity and health equity training for HIV prevention. In addition, the pharmacists will receive mentorship and receive an implementation toolkit on best practices for PrEP prescribing.

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