Adelaide Sexual Health Centre
137 East Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
Adelaide Sexual Health Centre provides free, confidential, specialist sexual health services. Get advice, testing and treatment for all sexually transmitted infections.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is the use of antiretroviral medications to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. Clinical trials from around the world have demonstrated that PrEP is safe and highly effective at preventing HIV transmission when taken as prescribed.
PrEP is different to PEP (post exposure prophylaxis) which is taken AFTER a possible exposure to HIV to prevent infection.
South Australia’s SAMESH program provides information and peer support for gay and bisexual men looking for more information about PrEP and other options to prevent HIV.
There are three ways to access HIV PrEP in South Australia:
For more information about accessing PrEP in South Australia, see Adelaide Sexual Health Centre’s HIV PrEP patient information sheet (PDF 110KB).