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Few Young Gay Males Avail Themselves of Hepatitis B Vaccine.(Brief Article)
2001 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Even though a hepatitis B vaccine has been available for almost 20 years, the vaccination rate in young gay males is still falling short, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
D.A. MacKellar and associates in the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention at the CDC reported in the American Journal of Public Health that a review of hepatitis B immunization practices among young men who have sex with men (MSM) revealed dismal findings although public health officials have promoted vaccination in this at-risk population since the early 1980s.
Data representing more than 3,000 MSM gathered over a four-year period in several major U.S cities showed the vaccination rate in this group was 9%, while the hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection rate was 11%.
"HBV infection ranged from 2% among 15-year-olds to 17% among 22-year-olds," MacKellar and colleagues said.
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