In France, combination prevention tools, particularly antiretroviral treatment for HIV prevention has been available for several years. We described the knowledge of these antiretroviral treatments among immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, who are particularly affected by HIV, and the factors associated with this knowledge.
Among this population, knowledge of HIV preventive treatments was heterogeneous. There is a need for specific communication on antiretroviral treatment for HIV prevention that targets sub-Saharan immigrants, particularly those who have no access to the health-care system and those who are less educated. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Data Availability: Data cannot be shared publicly because of ethical and legal restrictions. The participants are a vulnerable population and the data contain sensitive information about their administrative status, experience of violence, sexuality and health, which can be used to re-identify them.
Due to privacy agreements and the nature of the data, ethics committees and the French data protection authority do not allow the data to be made available to the public. All relevant data can be requested by researchers who meet the criteria for access to confidential data from the data access committee: ceped. The sponsors had no role in the design or conduct of the study; in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data; nor in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Studies have shown that these infections are linked not only to epidemic situations in the countries of origin but also to infection in the country of immigration. The ANRS-Parcours survey showed that social hardship encountered in France is an indirect factor of exposure to HIV infection since being without stable housing or a residence permit increases the risk of having unprotected sex, sex with casual partners and experiencing sexual violence for women [ 3 โ 5 ].
