PrEP prescribed online, delivered to your door.

PrEP is recommended for those at a higher risk for HIV, including (but not limited to):

1. Men who have sex with men / Transgender women and gender diverse people.
2. Heterosexual men and women who have high-risk exposure (such as having a partner with known HIV infection, sex workers, or having sex with a person at high risk for HIV)
3. People who inject drugs

If you’re interested in finding more about if PrEP is right for you, check out our article “Is PrEP right for Me?”

If you take PrEP daily, the presence of the medicine in your bloodstream helps stop HIV from taking hold and spreading in your body. PrEP stops HIV in your bloodstream from replicating, eliminating the virus from your body when the original exposure amount dies.

Daily PrEP use reduces the risk of getting HIV by 99%. Daily use is the most studied regimen, and this is what we recommend as well.

90%+ of Freddie's patients get PrEP for free! Here is how coverage breaks down by province and with Freddie's financial assistance programs:

Alberta, Saskatchewan those in Ontario who are 24 years old

You get free PrEP through provincial coverage with your health card!

Ontario

There are two programs for patients who are aged 25+ and need to pay for PrEP:

1. Those with insurance: Our co-pay assistance program reduces the cost of the co-pay to $0 for the vast majority of patients.
2. Those without insurance: We provide support to help reduce the cost of the Trillium Drug Program so that PrEP will either be free or low cost for you depending on your income.

Freddie also provides three months of free PrEP while you wait for your coverage kick in. We're here to support you!

Quebec

Our co-pay assistance program for patients with private insurance covers the cost of the co-pay associated with private lab testing. Financial assistance programs to help with the cost of PrEP itself are not allowed under Quebec law, unfortunately, so Freddie cannot offer them.

Nova Scotia

Our co-pay assistance program for patients with private insurance reduces the cost of the co-pay to $30/month for the vast majority of patients. Financial assistance programs for patients using Nova Scotia's Pharmacare are in the works!

You can read more about Freddie's financial assistance here: https://www.gofreddie.com/about-prep/freddies-new-financial-assistance-programs

For people in other provinces, all except Manitoba have released criteria that, if met, enable you to be fully covered for PrEP. Freddie does not serve provinces outside of Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan quite yet but we have plans to launch in the coming months!

Less than 10% of people experience side effects on PrEP. While some people do experience side effects, the vast majority of people don’t experience any at all. Those that do usually only have them for a short amount of time as they get used to the drug.

The fear of side effects shouldn’t hold you back from trying PrEP. Regular check-ups with your clinician will ensure that you are doing well while on PrEP, and that any side effects are managed. 

The vast majority of labs in Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan are not conducting COVID swab testing. COVID testing generally takes place at specific COVID testing centres. Therefore if you visit lab, you will not be around patients with COVID symptoms! In addition, most labs have safety precautions in place to protect their staff as well as patients.