Letter to the editor: female sex workers and HPV vaccine
When considering what the scientific evidence is for the potential added value to offer HPV vaccines to sex workers, not only its potential role for female sex workers should be examined, but its role for all those who conduct sex work. Our initial paper looked at the evidence in terms of HPV vaccin...
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| author | Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff Alex Vorsters Elske Marra Pierre Van Damme Arjan Hogewoning |
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| description | When considering what the scientific evidence is for the potential added value to offer HPV vaccines to sex workers, not only its potential role for female sex workers should be examined, but its role for all those who conduct sex work. Our initial paper looked at the evidence in terms of HPV vaccine immunogenicity, efficacy, effect on transmission, induction of mucosal immunity, and not at implementation. Brown and Cabral considered our omission to address the aspects of implementation an ‘academic mistake’. We disagree; implementation aspects are complex and require analyses of multiple barriers, and how to address these. It only makes sense to discuss these if there is scientific evidence for its implementation; otherwise offering the vaccine is not useful. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9ef2477588884846b8b7da621afbc3922023-09-22T08:45:32ZengTaylor & Francis GroupHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics2164-55152164-554X2020-01-0116112612710.1080/21645515.2019.16436791643679Letter to the editor: female sex workers and HPV vaccineMaarten F. Schim van der Loeff0Alex Vorsters1Elske Marra2Pierre Van Damme3Arjan Hogewoning4Public Health Service AmsterdamVaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of AntwerpenPublic Health Service AmsterdamVaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of AntwerpenPublic Health Service AmsterdamWhen considering what the scientific evidence is for the potential added value to offer HPV vaccines to sex workers, not only its potential role for female sex workers should be examined, but its role for all those who conduct sex work. Our initial paper looked at the evidence in terms of HPV vaccine immunogenicity, efficacy, effect on transmission, induction of mucosal immunity, and not at implementation. Brown and Cabral considered our omission to address the aspects of implementation an ‘academic mistake’. We disagree; implementation aspects are complex and require analyses of multiple barriers, and how to address these. It only makes sense to discuss these if there is scientific evidence for its implementation; otherwise offering the vaccine is not useful.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1643679human papillomavirussex workervaccineeffectiveness |
| spellingShingle | Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff Alex Vorsters Elske Marra Pierre Van Damme Arjan Hogewoning Letter to the editor: female sex workers and HPV vaccine Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics human papillomavirus sex worker vaccine effectiveness |
| title | Letter to the editor: female sex workers and HPV vaccine |
| title_full | Letter to the editor: female sex workers and HPV vaccine |
| title_fullStr | Letter to the editor: female sex workers and HPV vaccine |
| title_full_unstemmed | Letter to the editor: female sex workers and HPV vaccine |
| title_short | Letter to the editor: female sex workers and HPV vaccine |
| title_sort | letter to the editor female sex workers and hpv vaccine |
| topic | human papillomavirus sex worker vaccine effectiveness |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1643679 |
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