LOS ANGELES — Shawn Griffin remembers his first — and subsequently last — attempt to ask his doctor to prescribe him PrEP.
Griffin, a gay Black man, had hoped to be prescribed pre-exposure prophylaxis medication, known as PrEP, as a way to protect himself against HIV. But in 2012 his primary care doctor, a white man, said no.
"If I was exposed to it, he said then he'd give me the medication, but not before," Griffin said. "And he said the reason why is because he felt that PrEP kind of gave gay men a license to have all kinds of crazy sex."
