RIDOH effort aims to lower the barriers to getting HIV meds

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IN THE NETWORK: Dr. Joseph Garland, medical director of the Corliss Street Clinic, says he’s hopeful the R.I. Department of Health’s effort to coordinate clinics that offer preventative medication for HIV will lower barriers to people in certain populations from receiving preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. 
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IN THE NETWORK: Dr. Joseph Garland, medical director of the Corliss Street Clinic, says he’s hopeful the R.I. Department of Health’s effort to coordinate clinics that offer preventative medication for HIV will lower barriers to people in certain populations from receiving preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

With HIV diagnoses on the rise nationwide and in Rhode Island, a new R.I. Department of Health initiative is looking to expand access to a preventative treatment for the virus that is often spread through unprotected sex and shared hypodermic needles. Health officials say they are trying to knock down barriers for people in susceptible

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