Reviewer’s report
Title: 
'PrEP'ing for a PrEP Demonstration Project: Understanding PrEP
Knowledge and Attitudes among Cisgender Women
Version: 
1 
Date: 
06 Mar 2021
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review this manuscript, I have no COI to
disclose. 
The authors present interesting results of a focus group, where they interviewed
woman in South California regarding their knowledge, attitudes and perceptions
of HIV pre exposure prophylaxis. The study results show that most participants
were interested in the topic, and expressed very reasonable concerns. The study
is well written and well structured. The results of the study would be interesting
to the readers of BMC Women's Health. The main issue with this study (as with
most qualitative data) is the limited sample size, which the authors mention in
their limitations. This would hopefully lead the way for future large scale similar
studies in the future.
Few suggestions:
1. Abstract: Please remove this sentence from the conclusion as it is redundant
with the results "Despite limited PrEP knowledge and acknowledgement of
concerns and potential barriers to taking PrEP".
2. Abstract: Can the authors present some information regarding their population
in the abstract. 
3. The introduction is way too lengthy, please limit to one page. 
4. Please divide the Methods section into relevant sub-headings (Participants,
focus group, analysis… anything of the like would work).
5. The authors present additional information regarding the focus groups in their
appendix. I suggest adding some more information on the questions and topics
tackled to the methods as well.
6. "primarily due differences" > "due to"
7. Could the authors present a table with the participants' baseline
characteristics?
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