作者
Adedotun Ogunbajo, Alexa Euceda, Jamil Smith, Raven Ekundayo, Justise Wattree, Mitchell Brooks, DeMarc Hickson
发表日期
2023/2
期刊
Journal of Urban Health
卷号
100
期号
1
页码范围
204-211
出版商
Springer US
简介
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 …
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