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Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1455623
This article is part of the Research Topic Exploring the Interaction between Health-promoting and Health Risk Behaviors in Health, Volume II View all 19 articles

Monkeypox-related knowledge and vaccination willingness among the HIV diagnosed and suspected males: a cross-sectional survey in Changsha

Provisionally accepted
Yingying Zhou Yingying Zhou 1Jiemin Wang Jiemin Wang 2Zhi Xie Zhi Xie 1*
  • 1 Changsha Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha, China
  • 2 The Regenerative Medicine Institute, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland

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    Objective: To update a baseline data for monkeypox-related knowledge and vaccination willingness among Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) diagnosed and suspected males.Method: The previously diagnosed participants came from a cohort of HIV patients. The newly diagnosed and suspected participants were recruited from the outpatients and grouped by their confirmatory test results.Results: A total of 481 males were enrolled in the final analysis. A gap of monkeypox knowledge existed between the three participant groups. The vaccination willingness rate of HIV-infected participants was over 90%, and the number in the HIV-suspected group was 72.60%. Multivariate logistic regression showed that the previously diagnosed group (aOR = 0.314, 95% CI: 0.105-0.940) and the suspected group (aOR = 0.111, 95% CI: 0.034-0.363) had a lower level of vaccination willingness, referred to newly diagnosed group. The 25-34 (aOR = 0.287, 95% CI: 0.086-0.959) and 35-44 (aOR = 0.136, 95% CI: 0.039-0.478) age categories had a lower level of vaccination willingness, referred to the 15-24 age category. A better monkeypox knowledge predicted a higher level of vaccination willingness (aOR = 1.701, 95% CI: 1.165-2.483). Additionally, a considerate percentage of heterosexuals in each group expressed their acceptance for monkeypox vaccines.Conclusion: An overall high level of vaccination willingness was observed among HIV-infected and suspected males with disparities between individuals with different HIV infection status, knowledge levels of monkeypox and age. Addressing the existing knowledge gap and engaging people with persistent risks, regardless of sexual orientations, to timely HIV diagnosis may facilitate vaccinebased mitigation measures against monkeypox.

    Keywords: monkepox, HIV, Men who have sex with men (MSM), Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), Vaccination, Health Education

    Received: 27 Jun 2024; Accepted: 16 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Zhou, Wang and Xie. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Zhi Xie, Changsha Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha, China

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