Villar Livia Melo, Rabello Aline Dutra, de Paula Vanessa Salete
Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2011;12(12):3251-6.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases worldwide. Although two safe and clinically effective vaccines against HPV have been developed, they are not available to the public health network in Brazil. This study was performed to assess knowledge about HPV among seventy-nine professionals who completed a questionnaire about diagnosis, transmission, symptoms, prevention and general information. General knowledge about HPV was high, as most of them recognized that HPV is transmitted sexually (98.7%), the disease can be asymptomatic (82.3%) or warts can be present on the genitals (84.8 ) and the Pap smear is the screening method to identify cellular changes on the cervix (88.6%). However, many professionals did not know that there are now vaccines available for many HPV variants (38.0%) and that not all of them are oncogenic (44.3%). These data show that further educational programs, especially about HPV prevention, are needed in Brazil.
人乳头瘤病毒（HPV）感染是全球最常见的性传播疾病之一。尽管已研发出两种安全且临床有效的HPV疫苗，但巴西公共卫生网络尚未提供这些疫苗。本研究旨在评估79名专业人员对HPV的了解情况，这些人员完成了一份关于诊断、传播、症状、预防和一般信息的问卷。对HPV的一般知识了解程度较高，因为大多数人认识到HPV通过性传播（98.7%），该疾病可能无症状（82.3%）或生殖器上可能出现疣（84.8%），巴氏涂片是识别宫颈细胞变化的筛查方法（88.6%）。然而，许多专业人员不知道现在有针对多种HPV变体的疫苗（38.0%），也不知道并非所有变体都具有致癌性（44.3%）。这些数据表明，巴西需要进一步开展教育项目，尤其是关于HPV预防的项目。
