Demographics and Health Beliefs of Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men Receiving a Mpox Vaccination in the United States.
Adedotun OgunbajoAlexa EucedaJamil SmithRaven EkundayoJustise WattreeMitchell BrooksDeMarc HicksonPublished in: Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine (2023)
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.
Keyphrases
- mental health
- low cost
- healthcare
- randomized controlled trial
- men who have sex with men
- mental illness
- public health
- hiv positive
- primary care
- hiv testing
- health information
- mass spectrometry
- health promotion
- human health
- depressive symptoms
- social support
- south africa
- african american
- hiv infected
- drug administration