{"id":2622,"date":"2025-03-22T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T10:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2025-07-14T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:04:24","slug":"confronting-homophobia-in-anal-health-community-based-program-science-and-hpv-among-msm-in-nairobi-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/confronting-homophobia-in-anal-health-community-based-program-science-and-hpv-among-msm-in-nairobi-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Confronting Homophobia in Anal Health: Community &#8211; based Program Science and HPV among MSM in Nairobi, Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2622\" class=\"elementor elementor-2622\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0693d7e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0693d7e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a585f9c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a585f9c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0b633d3 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"0b633d3\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8d34c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f8d34c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5Q6A3091-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-5199\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5Q6A3091-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5Q6A3091-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5Q6A3091-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5Q6A3091-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5Q6A3091-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5Q6A3091-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cae234d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cae234d\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d6959ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d6959ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>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.\u00a0<\/p><p>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.<\/p><h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; font-weight: 500;\">Objective<\/h4><ul style=\"margin: 20px;\"><li>Identify and examine the constellation of individual, social, and structural barriers that inhibit MSM<br \/>from timely seeking anal health services.<\/li><li>Build community capacity to track changes in anal health issues over time and more effectively engage in evidence-based advocacy.<\/li><\/ul><h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; font-weight: 500;\">Project Initiated 2022<\/h4><p><br \/>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.<\/p><h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; font-weight: 500;\">Partnerships<\/h4><p><br \/>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).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Confronting Homophobia in Anal Health: Community &#8211; based Program Science and HPV among MSM in Nairobi, Kenya\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/confronting-homophobia-in-anal-health-community-based-program-science-and-hpv-among-msm-in-nairobi-kenya\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Confronting Homophobia in Anal Health: Community &#8211; based Program Science and HPV among MSM in Nairobi, Kenya\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":97,"href":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5264,"href":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/5264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articloo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}