Primary prevention efforts for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have historically focused on behavioral strategies, including encouraging abstinence, the delay of sexual initiation, careful partner selection, condom use, and partner management. Several potential emerging technologies, including microbicides and prophylactic vaccines, could add an additional focus to efforts to change individual sexual risk, at least in the case of certain STIs (1). One of the difficulties associated with traditional behavioral primary prevention efforts is that they seek to modify contextually complex, socially imbedded behaviors, such as condom use. The requirement for sustained behavior change over time adds to the difficulty of achieving long-term success with these kinds of interventions. In contrast, vaccination typically involves no more than three discrete events, which may be amenable to brief targeted interventions. The contextual complexity of vaccination is substantially less than with condom use, and effective vaccines would have no requirement for sustained behavior change. Efforts to encourage vaccination may need to differentially target specific immunization behaviors, including original and follow-up dosages, and possible booster shots.
Although getting vaccinated against an STI is, in many ways, a simpler behavior than consistent use of condoms in a sexual relationship, vaccination certainly will be uniquely challenging, requiring different approaches than those used to encourage safer sexual behaviors. It has been suggested that to have maximal impact, STI vaccination should occur prior to initiation of sexual activity, which often occurs during young adulthood (1–4). This suggestion to vaccinate adolescents is based on several considerations, including vaccine safety and efficacy studies among adolescents, data on STI epidemiology and age of sexual initiation in the United States, cost effectiveness evaluations, and established and recommended adolescent health care visits. Based on such considerations, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices(ACIP) unanimously voted in June 2006 to recommend a newly licensed HPV vaccine for routine delivery to females 11–12 years of age and for females 13–26 years of age who have not previously been vaccinated.
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Liddon, N., Zimet, G.D., Stanberry, L.R. (2007). STI Vaccines: Status of Development, Potential Impact, and Important Factors for Implementation. In: Aral, S.O., Douglas, J.M. (eds) Behavioral Interventions for Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48740-3_11
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