To browse Academia. Early syphilis is highly infectious and can lead to life-threatening complications if left untreated. During , early syphilis cases in Alaska tripled from 24 to 76, with most cases occurring among Anchorage men who have sex with men MSM. Partner services can mitigate transmission. We conducted an investigation to identify syphilis partner services barriers and opportunities among MSM in Anchorage. The goals of the present study are: 1 To identify socio-demographic and psychosocial predictors of HPV-related stigma and 2 To examine the relationship between HPV-related stigma in predicting HPV vaccine decision-making among college males.
Six hundred and eighty college males aged from three Canadian universities were recruited from September to April The results were analysed using variance analyses and linear regressions. Ethnicity, province of residence and perceived severity of HPV were found to significantly influence HPV-related stigma. Promotion efforts should concentrate on Asian minorities and should avoid HPV severity messaging as these may lead to higher HPV-related stigma, which in turn may a In this chapter we identify psychosocial issues that have been raised with respect to human papillomavirus HPV vaccination and review the research literature on HPV vaccine acceptability.
Many women and physicians have relatively poor knowledge about HPV, but despite this, most healthcare providers are willing to recommend HPV vaccination and parents are interested in having their children vaccinated. Concerns about post-vaccination sexual behavior change do not appear to be justified, but can certainly be addressed through anticipatory guidance. Most research studies have come out of the United States and other English-speaking industrialized countries.
More psychosocial research regarding HPV vaccination is therefore needed from developing countries. The trajectories of the implementation of these two programs were marked by differences in the way the sexual context of risk was communicated to the public. These trajectories fluctuated between full accounts of the sexual nature of the infection and attempts to desexualize the vaccines. Vaccine desexualization can be achieved by withholding information of sexual context, blurring information, and distancing the age of vaccination from the age of sexual debut.
Desexualization may be advantageous in promoting public health and personal health of people who believe that HPV vaccination leads to increased promiscuity, people who believe that protection against STD is not relevant to their children, and people who are not comfortable discussing the sexuality of their children.
