Dr. Leisha McKinley-Beach

To say I am sexually active and I want to know what's available does go against how many of us older women are taught.

And I preference that because, you know, some younger women like my daughter, that's not their narrative.

You know, we've been talking open about sex and pleasure, but I don't want you to be thinking about disease, right?

I want you to be thinking about this is about to be the best three minutes and 12 seconds of your life.

That's what it's supposed to be about.

But in order for it to be about that, you got to know what feels good for you.

And part of that toolkit may indeed be prep.

I would say in terms of women and in terms of black communities, it was a failure.

Some of the first imagery that I saw promoting PrEP.

was right back to what we have seen for the first couple decades of the epidemic.

Two white gay men, they about ready to live their best lives because PrEP is available for them.

And I just thought, when are we going to get it right?

Right.

And so when we look at who has benefit from PrEP since its approval in 2012, so that puts us what, about 13 years?

that PrEP has been available.

I got that country math, y'all.

I think that's right, 13 years.

We know that for white men, about 91% of white men who could benefit from PrEP already have it.

That's what success.

You got that right.