Associations between perceived barriers and benefits of using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and medication adherence among men who have sex with men in Western China.

At baseline, when participants had not yet started to take PrEP, the score for “worries about drug side effects” was 2.97 ± 1.15, but it showed a decreasing trend during the follow-up.

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Participants had a relatively high expectation about the efficacy of the drugs at baseline (3.17 ± 1.36), and even though the score was 2.89 ± 1.41 at first follow-up, there was an increasing trend throughout the follow-up, which reached 3.72 ± 1.37 at the end.

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