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<p>The HIV Action Plan Implementation Steering Group (ISG) is developing a roadmap
to help guide our efforts to improve equitable access, uptake and use of pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP) to meet the needs of key populations at significant risk of HIV.
This forms part of the group’s work to monitor and drive forward the implementation
of the HIV Action Plan. The roadmap is expected to be made available by the HIV Action
Plan ISG before the end of the year.</p><p> </p><p>HIV PrEP is routinely available
in specialist sexual health services throughout the country since March 2020 and we
have invested more than £34 million in PrEP in 2020/21 and 2021/22. PrEP funding has
been fully included within the public health grant since 2022/23 and funds appointments
and testing in sexual health services, whilst NHS England covers the costs of the
drug itself. The PrEP monitoring and evaluation framework was published by the UK
Health Security Agency in March 2022 and consists of a series of indicators to support
local authorities and inform service improvement in PrEP commissioning and delivery,
providing local areas with information that can help them address inequalities in
uptake of PrEP.</p>
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