Perception and barriers to access Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV/AIDS (PrEP) among the MSM (men who have sex with men) Brazilian Amazon: A qualitative study

• Diego Rafael Batista,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil

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• Rafaela Nunes Dávila,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8188-1881

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• Alicia Cacau dos Santos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil

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• Felipe Queiroz Rocha,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil

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• Jessica Albuquerque Araújo,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil

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• Aline Côrte Alencar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil

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• Loren Rebeca Nascimento,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil

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• Nilberto Dias de Araújo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fundação Hospitalar de Hematologia e Hemoterapia do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil

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• Stefanie Costa Pinto Lopes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil, Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane, Fiocruz, Manaus, Brazil

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• Patricia Saraiva Araújo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil, Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane, Fiocruz, Manaus, Brazil

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• Rondienny Andrade Filgueiras,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil, Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane, Fiocruz, Manaus, Brazil

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• Priscila Ferreira Saraiva,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil, Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane, Fiocruz, Manaus, Brazil

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• Marcus Vinicius Guimarães de Lacerda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil, Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane, Fiocruz, Manaus, Brazil, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Djane Clarys Baía-da-Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Djane Clarys Baía-da-Silva, Felipe Leão Gomes Murta

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil, Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane, Fiocruz, Manaus, Brazil, Universidade Nilton Lins, Manaus, Brazil

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• Felipe Leão Gomes Murta

  Contributed equally to this work with: Djane Clarys Baía-da-Silva, Felipe Leão Gomes Murta

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: felipelmurta@gmail.com

  Affiliations Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil, Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane, Fiocruz, Manaus, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4414-3989

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