{"id":"doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2026.129233","kind":"article","title":"High willingness to receive a vaccine for gonorrhoea prevention among gay, bisexual, queer, and other sexuality diverse men, and non-binary people in Australia","authors":["Hammoud M","Holt M","Broady TR","Grulich A","Gray J","Gordon T","Bushby B","Londos C","Costello J","MacGibbon J","Bavinton BR"],"author_count":11,"year":2026,"published":"2026-10-13","venue":"Vaccine","cited_by":0,"doi":"10.1016/j.vaccine.2026.129233","arxiv_id":null,"nct_id":null,"source_url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2026.129233","archive_url":"https://space-kitty.com/papers/doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2026.129233","updated":null,"pmid":"42869876","pmcid":null,"openalex_id":null,"pdf_url":null,"abstract":"Gonorrhoea incidence and antimicrobial resistance are increasing among gay, bisexual, queer, and other sexuality diverse men, and non-binary (GBQ+) people. Observational studies suggested that 4CMenB vaccine (Bexsero®) may provide partial protection against gonorrhoea, but recent randomised trials found no clear evidence of protection. We analysed willingness to receive 4CMenB for gonorrhoea prevention in a 2025 Australian cross-sectional survey of GBQ+ individuals aged ≥16 years. Multivariable logistic regression examined associated factors. Among 2138 participants (median age 39 years), 89.2% were willing to be vaccinated. Willingness was lower among participants aged ≥30 (aOR = 0.46;95%CI = 0.29-0.74), born outside Australia (aOR = 0.71;95%CI = 0.51-0.99), higher among those reporting recent HIV PrEP use (aOR = 2.80;95%CI = 1.30-5.99), familiarity with antimicrobial resistance (aOR = 2.26;95%CI = 1.61-3.18), and willingness to take an antibiotic pill after sex to prevent STIs (aOR = 5.42;95%CI = 3.85-7.61). Willingness was high and aligned more with prevention engagement and biomedical prevention attitudes than with sexual risk behaviours, suggesting future gonorrhoea vaccines may be acceptable in this population.","abstract_license":"CC-BY (article license as recorded by Europe PMC; abstract reproduced unmodified apart from markup removal)","license":"CC-BY","is_open_access":false,"retracted":false,"peer_reviewed":null,"categories":[],"details":null,"provenance":"europepmc","attribution":"Abstract of \"High willingness to receive a vaccine for gonorrhoea prevention among gay, bisexual, queer, and other sexuality diverse men, and non-binary people in Australia\" by Hammoud M, Holt M, Broady TR et al., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2026.129233, used under its Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY); markup removed, otherwise unmodified.","topics":[{"slug":"infectious-disease-amr","name":"Infectious Disease, Vaccines & Antimicrobial Resistance","domain_slug":"medicine"}],"cited_in_dossiers":[]}