This recommendation concerns “men with sexual relations with men and trans people who are multi -party, people in prostitution, professionals practicing in places of sexual consumption”.
Le Monde with AFP
“Faced with the dissemination of the Monkeypox virus, the kinetics of the epidemic and the difficulties of tracing contacts of infected people”, the High Authority for Health (HAS) recommended Friday, July 8, to expand vaccination against The variole of the monkey to be able to administer it preventively to the most exposed “because of their sexual practices or their profession”, according to a Communicated .
This recommendation concerns “men with sexual relations with men and trans people who are multi -party, people in prostitution, professionals practicing in places of sexual consumption,” said has.
Five hundred and seventy-seven cases in France
In France, according to the latest figures, dated July 5, 577 cases were confirmed, including 387 in Ile-de-France. These cases occurred mainly in men, and when this information is informed, especially in men with sex with men, or even having had several partners the weeks preceding their symptoms.
At this stage, the HAS does not recommend the preventive vaccination of healthcare professionals taking care of the patients, considering that the usual hygiene measures and the wearing of personal protective equipment make “the risk of very low contamination in practice “. This vaccination can however be envisaged “on a case-by-case basis, depending on exposure, the existence of individual risk factors or to [the] request,” she added.
Until then, the High Authority for Health recommended to vaccinate adults, including health professionals, having had risky contact with a patient. It had been seized at the end of last week by the Ministry of Health to determine which populations to expand vaccination to limit the risk of contamination to persons likely to be exposed to the virus.
LGBT+associations, some health professionals, and, more recently, leftist parties, had questioned the ministry about an enlargement to men with sex with other men.