1. Uptake of the HPV vaccine among people with and without HIV, cisgender and transgender women and men who have sex with men and with women at two sexual health clinics in Mexico City
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Leith León-Maldonado, Betania Allen-Leigh, Galileo Vargas-Guadarrama, Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce, Leonor Rivera-Rivera, Elsa Yunes-Díaz, Brandon Brown, Jorge Salmerón, and Alejandra Jalil Portillo-Romero
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Adult ,Male ,030231 tropical medicine ,Immunology ,Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ,HIV Infections ,medicine.disease_cause ,Transgender Persons ,Transgender women ,Men who have sex with men ,Sexual and Gender Minorities ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Mexico city ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Papillomavirus Vaccines ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Homosexuality, Male ,Human papillomavirus ,Mexico ,Reproductive health ,Pharmacology ,business.industry ,Papillomavirus Infections ,Vaccination ,virus diseases ,Patient Acceptance of Health Care ,Female ,Sexual Health ,business ,Research Paper ,Demography - Abstract
Our aim was to better understand Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine acceptance among Mexican adults including people with and without HIV, cisgender men who have sex with men (MSM) or with women (MSW), cisgender and transgender women. A computer-assisted, self-administered questionnaire was completed by healthcare users and participants recruited through community organizations, and the first dose of the quadrivalent HPV vaccine was offered at no cost at a large sexual health clinic in Mexico City, from May to December 2018. Socio-demographic characteristics and factors associated with HPV vaccine acceptance were analyzed using logistic regression. The sample of 1915 participants included 1341 cisgender men (70.9%, 1247 MSM and 94 MSW), 396 (20.7%) cisgender women and 178 (9.3%) transwomen; 615 people (32.1%) were HIV positive. Uptake of the HPV vaccine was higher in men and transwomen (91.5% and 87%, respectively) than among cisgender women (81.8%; p
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- 2019
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