Study explores HPV vaccine acceptability in sexual minorities

(University of California - Riverside) Human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes genital warts and can lead to several cancers, is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, affecting about 630 million people worldwide. Focusing on Peruvian 'men who have sex with men' and transgender women, a research team, led by an assistant professor in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, has found that a preventive HPV vaccine is widely, though not universally, accepted among those populations.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news