PEP after HIV risk
You’re eligible for a PEP treatment if you’ve recently run an HIV risk. Start treatment as soon as possible after risky sex. Go to the GGD municipal health service, a hospital emergency department or an HIV clinic.
What is PEP?
- PEP is a 4-week treatment with HIV drugs.
- PEP really reduces the chance that you’ll get HIV, but there’s no guarantee that you’ll remain HIV-negative.
- Start PEP treatment as soon as possible after you’ve run the risk. Preferably within 2 hours of unsafe sex and no later than 72 hours afterwards.
- The sooner you start, the greater the chance of success.
Where can you get PEP?
You can get PEP at a GGD health centre, hospital emergency department or HIV clinic. Where you should go depends on the time of day. During office hours, contact the nearest GGD health centre in your region. Outside office hours, your best option is to go to the emergency department of a larger hospital.
Safe sex
How to not get an STI and not get pregnant either? Just make sure you always have safe sex. How do you have safe sex? Read that here on Sense.info!
What is safe and what isn’t?
There are different ways to have sex. When have you got the biggest chance of getting an STI? Or of getting pregnant? Take a look at this diagram.
Stopping HIV with PrEP
Condoms prevent HIV infection. Additionally, HIV medication is used in a variety of ways for HIV prevention. Read more about PrEP here.
Talking about safe sex
Safe sex sounds easy, but do you know how to talk about it to your boyfriend or girlfriend? Here are some tips if you want to talk about safe sex.