TY - BOOK AU - Scott, Rachel K TI - Providers PrEP: Identifying Primary Health care Providers' Biases as Barriers to Provision of Equitable PrEP Services SN - 1525-4135 PY - 2021/// KW - *Anti-HIV Agents/ad [Administration & Dosage] KW - *Attitude of Health Personnel KW - *Drug Prescriptions/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data] KW - *Health Personnel/px [Psychology] KW - *Healthcare Disparities KW - *HIV Infections/pc [Prevention & Control] KW - *Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis/mt [Methods] KW - Adult KW - Anti-HIV Agents/tu [Therapeutic Use] KW - Bias KW - Female KW - Health Care Surveys KW - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice KW - Health Services Accessibility KW - HIV Infections/eh [Ethnology] KW - HIV Infections/px [Psychology] KW - Homosexuality, Male KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data] KW - Prejudice KW - Primary Health Care KW - Racism KW - Socioeconomic Factors KW - Surveys and Questionnaires KW - MedStar Health Research Institute KW - Journal Article N2 - BACKGROUND: Despite their disparately high HIV incidence and voiced willingness to use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), Black cisgender women's knowledge and uptake of PrEP are low, especially relative to White cisgender women and men who have sex with men. Mounting evidence demonstrates that health care provider recommendations are a critical factor in women's awareness, willingness, and ability to uptake PrEP. Health care providers may make clinical judgments about who is (not) a good candidate for PrEP based on unconscious and conscious stereotypes and prejudice; CONCLUSIONS: Our findings highlight the importance of applying an intersectional lens in documenting the processes that exacerbate inequities in PrEP use. This study provides evidence to support the development of interventions that address the mechanisms that work to thwart optimal care. Copyright (c) 2021 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved; METHOD: Providers received 1 of 4 vignettes about a PrEP eligible woman. Vignettes varied by patient race and substance use status. Then, providers reported their willingness to discuss PrEP with the patient and willingness to prescribe PrEP to her; RESULTS: We tested 2 models predicting providers (1) willingness to discuss and (2) willingness to prescribe PrEP, contingent on their racial attitudes. Providers who scored high on a modern racism measure were less willing to discuss and prescribe PrEP to the Black patient. These effects were mediated by provider perceptions of patients' abilities to adhere to PrEP, but not their expectations of risk compensatory behaviors; SETTING: We conducted an online experiment among N = 160 health care providers with prescribing privileges in the 48 HIV hotspot counties UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000002750 ER -