How to Use pre-exposure in a Sentence

pre-exposure

adjective
  • Prevention tools like contraception and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) helped protect women’s health.
    — Jennifer Lotito, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Someone at high risk of being exposed to rabies can get the rabies vaccine as part of what’s called pre-exposure prophylaxis — that is, vaccination before any exposure occurs — to provide protection in case contact with the virus happens later.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Study data showed a single set of injections every six months can offer virtually complete protection against infection, a form of prevention known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Lewin wrote to Rubio that the number of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers who began pre-exposure prophylaxis through PEPFAR more than doubled.
    — Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The case began when a Texas business did not wish to cover HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, which is recommended by the USPSTF.
    — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 28 July 2025
  • The event was sponsored by MISTR, a telemedicine platform that provides online access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and long-term HIV care.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Gilead Sciences — The biopharmaceutical stock reversed and was recently 5% higher as analysts called out the potential for Yeztugo, a pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV.
    — Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Black and Latino people have low rates of pre-exposure prophylaxis use compared to their share of new HIV infections nationwide, according to Emory University’s AIDSVu project.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The number of people who received pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication, used to prevent those at risk from contracting HIV, declined by a drastic 38 percent between 2024 and 2025, per initial data from 62 countries — which means more than a million fewer people took the drug.
    — Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 13 June 2026

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