Protect yourself and your partners from getting HIV

Using condoms, lube, and dental dams during sex can help prevent HIV. These methods also help prevent other STI like syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia. Many local public health authorities across Oregon have free condoms available.

Find your local health authority

If you have trouble getting condoms, you can order free condoms and lube mailed to your door once a month.

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PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is a medicine that prevents someone from getting HIV. You can take PrEP as a daily pill or a periodic injection. PrEP is recognized as a safe and effective way to prevent HIV. The Oregon Health Plan and other insurance companies cover it!

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PEP is medicine that someone can take after being exposed to HIV. PEP must be started quickly after a possible exposure – within 72 hours. The Oregon Health Plan and other insurance companies cover PEP. There are resources to help pay for PEP if you are uninsured.

Get PEP help

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Sharing works means sharing injection equipment. Sharing puts people at high risk of getting and spreading HIV and hepatitis C. If you inject drugs, safer injecting reduces these risks. It also reduces the risk of overdose. Safer practices include using sterile syringes and not sharing or re-using injection equipment.

Oregon has free syringe exchange programs throughout the state. They offer services and supplies including:

• Safe disposal of used syringes
• Sterile needles and syringes and other injection equipment (cottons, cookers, etc.)
• Wound care
• Condoms, lube, and other safer sex supplies
• HIV and hepatitis C testing
• Information about safer injecting technique
• Narcan (Naloxone), a medication to reverse opioid overdose
• Fentanyl test strips
• Help to quit using when you’re ready

There are many resources for finding syringe exchanges near you. These include NASEN and 211.

Rose City Resource provides information for Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties only.

You can also reach out to your local public health authority. They have information about syringe exchange and overdose prevention services in your area.

NASEN 211 Rose City Resource