by AKeem Rollins | Nov 17, 2020 | PrEP 101
What you may not have known about PrEP If you aren’t too familiar with PrEP, it’s a medication an HIV negative person can take once a day to lower their risk of HIV infection by up to 99 percent. Pretty amazing, right? The brand name of PrEP is Truvada, so if you ever...
by AKeem Rollins | Nov 5, 2020 | PrEP 101, Sex and PrEP
How PrEP might affect your relationship, life, and love PrEP is kinda, sorta, really amazing. This little blue pill not only prevents the chances of getting HIV by up to 99% but has an impact on all aspects of life. Love, sex, relationships, you name it. How so, you...
by AKeem Rollins | Oct 6, 2020 | PrEP 101
Tips for taking your meds daily Is that an echo? Yuuupppp, it’s the 50th time someone’s telling you to take your PrEP meds every day exactly as directed. Easy for them to say — sometimes hard for you to do. You wake up late for work and before you know it, you’ve...
by AKeem Rollins | Sep 22, 2020 | PrEP 101
Injectable PrEP? PrEP Rings? PrEP Implants??? Let’s face it; not everyone is a pill-taker. Sometimes, we forget. Sometimes the pill is a horse tranquilizer, and we don’t know how we are supposed to swallow that thing with just a glass of water, hope, and...
by AKeem Rollins | Sep 8, 2020 | PrEP 101
No Shame in Safety: PrEP Stigma and Why That is Ridiculous PrEP Whore. Slut. Ho. Loose. Irresponsible. People have a lot to say about people who take PrEP, but why? Where does this come from? A lot of conversation around sex and protection is highly stigmatized,...
by AKeem Rollins | Aug 21, 2020 | PrEP 101
PrEP and Hormones; What is going on in there? So, I was talking to my girl a few months back; we’ll call her Prada* for now. She was telling me that she isn’t on PrEP because one of the other girls was tellin’ her that it will mess with her ‘mones (hormones), and she...
