Brenton Williams finally felt he had the proper health insurance to ask his doctor about PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), a highly protective drug regimen for people at risk of HIV. Williams’ fiancée is HIV positive, which should have made him the perfect candidate for PrEP, which prevents HIV transmission in the event of exposure to the virus. “I just really wanted this extra layer of protection,” he said. His doctor wasn’t so sure. “Well, what do you need it for?” she probed, before offering to “look into it.” Williams sensed that she was trying to change the subject. ”I don’t understand what the hold up is,” Williams told me two months after his initial appointment requesting the medication. As far as he could tell, his doctor seemed unclear about best practices for prescribing PrEP, telling Williams that she needed to learn more about it herself. Williams had completed all of the necessary lab work along with a full physical, but he still hadn’t gotten access to the drug.…