Category: News

Do you use PrEP cur­rently? Or would you like to use PrEP? Please par­ti­cip­ate in a short ques­tion­naire of Maastricht Uni­ver­sity. We are curious to know your exper­i­ences and needs! Maastricht Uni­ver­sity is the only research insti­tute in The Neth­er­lands that received funding from the AIDS Fonds to study the use of […]

GGD Ams­ter­dam par­ti­cip­ates in the large inter­na­tional PrEP-study DISCOVER. This study is to estab­lish the safety and effect­ive­ness of the new pill F/TAF in com­par­ison to the exist­ing PrEP pill Truvada. You can apply until the 26th of March. About the DIS­COVER-study The DIS­COVER-study is designed by Gilead, man­u­fac­turer of both Truvada and […]

“Cheers mate! We’ll take our health in our own hands.” With a cheer­fully cheeky slogan, last week a new group of PrEP act­iv­ists intro­duced them­selves. These ‘Dutch act­iv­ist health pro­fes­sion­als’ go by the some­what mil­it­ant name PrEP Tac­tical Unit (PTU). Besides our com­munity effort PrEPnu, there is now also a group of con­cerned act­iv­ists […]

Intro­du­cing PrEP in the Neth­er­lands would be cost effect­ive. With a sig­ni­fic­ant price reduc­tion, it could even be cost saving. These two find­ings from a study that Dutch research­ers from Erasmus MC and AMC pub­lished in the Lancet Infec­tious Dis­eases should be music to the ears of the Dutch Min­is­ter for Health […]

On Sat­urday Septem­ber 24 our team will be avail­able for a PrEP talk at the monthly bear special at Ams­ter­dam Gay Sauna Nieuwez­ijds. See you there between 3 and 7 pm!

PrEPnu act­iv­ists will be calling for your atten­tion at several Euro­Pride Ams­ter­dam 2016 events and parties. They’ll encour­age you to educate your­self regard­ing PrEP and support our com­munity effort for imme­di­ate access to PrEP in The Neth­er­lands. There are several ways to support us, one of which is to sign […]

Today, the European Medi­cines Agency (EMA) recom­men­ded Truvada for pre­vent­ive use in Europe. Now the Min­is­ter for Health needs to act accord­ingly and make PrEP avail­able in The Neth­er­lands.   European regis­tra­tion The EMA is an agency of the European Union (EU). The Agency is respons­ible for the sci­entific eval­u­ation, […]

HIV med­ic­a­tion is not just life saving for HIV pos­it­ive people, but if you take it cor­rectly you can’t trans­mit the virus to sex part­ners, even if you don’t use condoms. This pos­it­ive con­clu­sion is drawn from the large European PARTNER study among almost 900 straight and gay serodis­cord­ant couples (one […]

During Pride Month we need volun­teers to help us carry out our message: PrEP NOW for every­body! Help us mobil­ise our com­munity for imme­di­ate access to PrEP in the Neth­er­lands. Are you our motiv­ated and con­vin­cing volun­teer? Would you like to inform people about PrEP? We need you to visit […]

From June 15 – July 15 a large European study will assess HIV-neg­at­ive people’s aware­ness of PrEP, and their will­ing­ness and inten­tion to use it. The survey “Flash! PrEP in Europe” also aims to eval­u­ate the use of PrEP outside clin­ical trials in 12 European coun­tries, includ­ing the Neth­er­lands. Find­ings will influ­ence national […]