This project aims to understand and confront homophobia and its role in the late presentation of HPV-related and other anal diseases among MSM in Nairobi.
The new knowledge generated on health services and HPV will provide a firm foundation of evidence to inform a community-driven HPV and cancer prevention program for MSM in Nairobi. This is especially urgent in what has been termed a rising cancer epidemic in Africa.
Objective
- Identify and examine the constellation of individual, social, and structural barriers that inhibit MSM
from timely seeking anal health services. - Build community capacity to track changes in anal health issues over time and more effectively engage in evidence-based advocacy.
Project Initiated 2022
The study started in October 2022 and will continue for three years and builds on and contributes to an internationally renowned Kenyan-Canadian collaboration that has been studying STBBI and closely partnering with stigmatised communities since the 1980s.
Partnerships
PHDA is partnering with Health Options for Young Men on HIV/AIDS/STI (HOYMAS) and the University of Manitoba on this project, with funding support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).