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Demographics and Health Beliefs of Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men Receiving a Mpox Vaccination in the United States

An outbreak of mpox virus (MPV) among humans in the United States (U.S.) was described in May 2022. This outbreak disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic sexual minority men (SMM) and these groups have lower rates of vaccination compared to Whites. Between July and August 2022, a partnership b...

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Autores principales: Ogunbajo, Adedotun, Euceda, Alexa, Smith, Jamil, Ekundayo, Raven, Wattree, Justise, Brooks, Mitchell, Hickson, DeMarc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9854406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36662397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00712-9
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author Ogunbajo, Adedotun
Euceda, Alexa
Smith, Jamil
Ekundayo, Raven
Wattree, Justise
Brooks, Mitchell
Hickson, DeMarc
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description An outbreak of mpox virus (MPV) among humans in the United States (U.S.) was described in May 2022. This outbreak disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic sexual minority men (SMM) and these groups have lower rates of vaccination compared to Whites. Between July and August 2022, a partnership between a nonprofit and two local health departments successfully designed and implemented a community intervention to administer MPV vaccines to Black SMM in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We administered a quantitative survey to 178 respondents across four vaccinations clinics. We found that study participants had high socioeconomic status, high levels of anticipated MPV stigma, and were relatively skeptic about MPV. We demonstrated how a partnership between an urban nonprofit and government agency can facilitate quick and effective dissemination of a community intervention in a relatively low cost manner.
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spelling pubmed-98544062023-01-23 Demographics and Health Beliefs of Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men Receiving a Mpox Vaccination in the United States Ogunbajo, Adedotun Euceda, Alexa Smith, Jamil Ekundayo, Raven Wattree, Justise Brooks, Mitchell Hickson, DeMarc J Urban Health Brief Report An outbreak of mpox virus (MPV) among humans in the United States (U.S.) was described in May 2022. This outbreak disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic sexual minority men (SMM) and these groups have lower rates of vaccination compared to Whites. Between July and August 2022, a partnership between a nonprofit and two local health departments successfully designed and implemented a community intervention to administer MPV vaccines to Black SMM in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We administered a quantitative survey to 178 respondents across four vaccinations clinics. We found that study participants had high socioeconomic status, high levels of anticipated MPV stigma, and were relatively skeptic about MPV. We demonstrated how a partnership between an urban nonprofit and government agency can facilitate quick and effective dissemination of a community intervention in a relatively low cost manner. Springer US 2023-01-20 2023-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9854406/ /pubmed/36662397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00712-9 Text en © The New York Academy of Medicine 2023
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Ogunbajo, Adedotun
Euceda, Alexa
Smith, Jamil
Ekundayo, Raven
Wattree, Justise
Brooks, Mitchell
Hickson, DeMarc
Demographics and Health Beliefs of Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men Receiving a Mpox Vaccination in the United States
title Demographics and Health Beliefs of Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men Receiving a Mpox Vaccination in the United States
title_full Demographics and Health Beliefs of Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men Receiving a Mpox Vaccination in the United States
title_fullStr Demographics and Health Beliefs of Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men Receiving a Mpox Vaccination in the United States
title_full_unstemmed Demographics and Health Beliefs of Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men Receiving a Mpox Vaccination in the United States
title_short Demographics and Health Beliefs of Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men Receiving a Mpox Vaccination in the United States
title_sort demographics and health beliefs of black gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority men receiving a mpox vaccination in the united states
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9854406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36662397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00712-9
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