Dr. Montano is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh and an adolescent medicine physician at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. Email him at pdnews@frontlinemedcom.com.
Resource
CDC website on PrEP: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/prep/index.html, with provider guidelines.
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