PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS IN SERO-DISCORDANT MALE PARTNERS OF HIV POSITIVE WOMEN DESIROUS OF NATURAL CONCEPTION

The reproductive health needs of sero-discordant couples are issues of concerns, especially in view of high cost of various assisted conception methods in the low-resource economies. Often times, many of these couples resort to uninformed and unsafe practices of unprotected heterosexual intercourse, leading to HIV acquisition. The magnitude of the health burden of these populations in Nigeria and other developing economies are currently not fully determined. Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in conjunction with other HIV prevention strategies provides the only veritable and possibly safe mean of achieving their reproductive desire.