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Human Papillomavirus Infection: Knowledge, Risk Perceptions and Behaviors among SMW and AFAB

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States, and persistent HPV infection has been established as playing a major role in the development of cervical cancer. Providing HPV vaccination and regular screening tests have reduced the r...

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Autores principales: Piróg, Magdalena, Grabski, Bartosz, Jach, Robert, Zmaczyński, Andrzej, Dutsch-Wicherek, Magdalena, Wróbel, Andrzej, Stangel-Wójcikiewicz, Klaudia
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9025599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35453891
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12040843
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author Piróg, Magdalena
Grabski, Bartosz
Jach, Robert
Zmaczyński, Andrzej
Dutsch-Wicherek, Magdalena
Wróbel, Andrzej
Stangel-Wójcikiewicz, Klaudia
author_facet Piróg, Magdalena
Grabski, Bartosz
Jach, Robert
Zmaczyński, Andrzej
Dutsch-Wicherek, Magdalena
Wróbel, Andrzej
Stangel-Wójcikiewicz, Klaudia
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description Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States, and persistent HPV infection has been established as playing a major role in the development of cervical cancer. Providing HPV vaccination and regular screening tests have reduced the risk of developing cervical cancer or helped to detect the cancer at an early stage. Despite the above measures, cervical cancer still remains a major public health problem worldwide. Infection with HPV, and consequently cervical cancer, affects all people with an intact cervix, so not only heterosexual women, but also women from sexual minorities (SMW) together with people assigned female at birth (AFAB). These populations may be even more likely to develop cervical cancer, mainly because they are less likely to be aware of HPV transmission and prevention of cervical cancer. In our review, we summarized the current state of HPV knowledge, collected data assessing the orientation of this issue among SMW and AFAB, and indicated the causes of possible negligence in the prevention of cervical cancer.
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spelling pubmed-90255992022-04-23 Human Papillomavirus Infection: Knowledge, Risk Perceptions and Behaviors among SMW and AFAB Piróg, Magdalena Grabski, Bartosz Jach, Robert Zmaczyński, Andrzej Dutsch-Wicherek, Magdalena Wróbel, Andrzej Stangel-Wójcikiewicz, Klaudia Diagnostics (Basel) Review Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States, and persistent HPV infection has been established as playing a major role in the development of cervical cancer. Providing HPV vaccination and regular screening tests have reduced the risk of developing cervical cancer or helped to detect the cancer at an early stage. Despite the above measures, cervical cancer still remains a major public health problem worldwide. Infection with HPV, and consequently cervical cancer, affects all people with an intact cervix, so not only heterosexual women, but also women from sexual minorities (SMW) together with people assigned female at birth (AFAB). These populations may be even more likely to develop cervical cancer, mainly because they are less likely to be aware of HPV transmission and prevention of cervical cancer. In our review, we summarized the current state of HPV knowledge, collected data assessing the orientation of this issue among SMW and AFAB, and indicated the causes of possible negligence in the prevention of cervical cancer. MDPI 2022-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9025599/ /pubmed/35453891 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12040843 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Piróg, Magdalena
Grabski, Bartosz
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Dutsch-Wicherek, Magdalena
Wróbel, Andrzej
Stangel-Wójcikiewicz, Klaudia
Human Papillomavirus Infection: Knowledge, Risk Perceptions and Behaviors among SMW and AFAB
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title_fullStr Human Papillomavirus Infection: Knowledge, Risk Perceptions and Behaviors among SMW and AFAB
title_full_unstemmed Human Papillomavirus Infection: Knowledge, Risk Perceptions and Behaviors among SMW and AFAB
title_short Human Papillomavirus Infection: Knowledge, Risk Perceptions and Behaviors among SMW and AFAB
title_sort human papillomavirus infection: knowledge, risk perceptions and behaviors among smw and afab
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9025599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35453891
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12040843
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