Fenway Health Supports Passage of Bill To Ensure Young Adults Have Access to HIV Prevention and TreatmentBOSTON—Fenway Health announces today that it supports “An Act Relative To HIV Prevention Access for Young Adults,” which would make it possible for minors to receive prescriptions for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) from health care providers as well as treatment for HIV without parental consent.
The bill was filed in the House by State Reps. Jack Patrick Lewis and Chynah Tyler and in the Senate by State Sen. Julian Cyr.PrEP is an antiretroviral medication that blocks HIV from replicating in the body and when taken daily reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by more than 90 percent.