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A Cross-Sectional Study of HPV Vaccine Acceptability in Gaborone, Botswana


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Author list: Yumi Taylor DiAngi1,2*, Catherine A. Panozzo3, Doreen Ramogola-Masire1,2,4,5, Andrew P. Steenhoff2,6,7,
Noel T. Brewer8,9*

Publication year: 2011

Volume number: Volume 6

Issue number: Issue 10

Start page: 1

End page: 7

Number of pages: 7

URL: www.plosone.org



Abstract
Background: Cervical cancer is the most common cancer among women in Botswana and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa.
We sought to examine whether HPV vaccine is acceptable among parents in Botswana, which recently licensed the vaccine
to prevent cervical cancer.
Methods and Findings: We conducted a cross-sectional survey in 2009, around the time the vaccine was first licensed, with
adults recruited in general medicine and HIV clinics in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. Although only 9% (32/376) of
respondents had heard of HPV vaccine prior to the survey, 88% (329/376) said they definitely will have their adolescent
daughters receive HPV vaccine. Most respondents would get the vaccine for their daughters at a public or community clinic
(42%) or a gynecology or obstetrician’s office (39%), and 74% would get it for a daughter if it were available at her school.
Respondents were more likely to say that they definitely will get HPV vaccine for their daughters if they had less education
(OR = 0.20, 95% CI = 0.07–0.58) or lived more than 30 kilometers from the capital, Gaborone (OR = 2.29, 95% CI = 1.06–4.93).
Other correlates of acceptability were expecting to be involved in the decision to get HPV vaccine, thinking the vaccine
would be hard to obtain, and perceiving greater severity of HPV-related diseases.
Conclusions: HPV vaccination of adolescent girls would be highly acceptable if the vaccine became widely available to the
daughters of healthcare seeking parents in Gaborone, Botswana. Potential HPV vaccination campaigns should provide more
information about HPV and the vaccine as well as work to minimize barriers.
Citation: DiAngi YT, Panozzo CA, Ramogola-Masire D, Steenhoff AP, Brewer NT (2011) A Cross-Sectional Study of HPV Vaccine Acceptability in Gaborone,
Botswana. PLoS ONE 6(10): e25481. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025481
Editor: Beatriz G. J. Grinsztejn, Instituto de Pesquisa Clı´nica Evandro Chagas/Fundac¸a˜o Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Received April 20, 2011; Accepted September 5, 2011; Published October 25, 2011
Copyright: 2011 DiAngi et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This study was made possible through core services and support from the Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), a National Institutes of Health (NIH)
funded program (P30 AI 045008). Additional support for publication of the findings was provided by a grant from the American Cancer Society (MSRG-06-259-01-
CPPB). These funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
* E-mail: ydiangi@gmail.com(YTD); ntb1@unc.edu(NTB)


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