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Claire Levandoski-Fowler-Porter

Sexual health and contraception nurse at Brighton Sexual Health Service (University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust), leads the Elton John AIDS Foundation–funded PrEPared campaign for women's PrEP access.

Sep 23, 2026

2:18
Yeah
2:18
... which was about raising Prep awareness in, um, West Sussex, or in the whole of Sussex, so.
2:24
So Prep is a medication that combines two medications, but it's, uh, an antiretroviral.
2:30
So basically, how it works is it mimics, um, these enzymes that HIV uses to infiltrate cells and reproduce, um, from...
2:40
Turn their r- their HIV RNA to DNA, and then it replicates.
2:44
So basically, in a nutshell, Prep stops, um, HIV being able to replicate in a cell and then, um, infiltrate the body.
2:53
And, um, so Prep is, um, used by, um, gay bisexual men who have sex with men, so GBMSM, but also women and basically now-

12 MINS LATER

15:07
Um, Claire is going on a secondment for a year.

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