By Andrea Hargraves 
The Infection Control Foundation and the German Trias Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, have identified transgender women as a group highly susceptible to monkeypox that requires a special approach.
The research, the product of a collaboration between researchers from African countries, Europe and the United States, led by infectious disease specialist Oriol Mitja, was published in The Lancet and represents a detailed approach to monkeypox, analysis of its transmission routes and treatment possibilities.
The disease has spread in Spain, is now decreasing, but is still active in Latin America and Africa.
The researchers also looked at the risk of death in patients with severe immunosuppression, especially in people with uncontrolled HIV infection, which is more common in low-income countries.
The study also looks at how people at risk can be diagnosed and treated more quickly and alternative strategies for people who don’t respond to first-line treatment with the antiviral Tecovirimat.
As part of the project, the researchers analyzed the disease in women for the first time, to allow for a better diagnosis.
While monkeypox has so far mainly affected men who have sex with men, women (transgender and transgender) make up a percentage of infected people that must be considered for a comprehensive and comprehensive approach to the epidemic.
The study shows that transgender women with monkeypox engage in sex work to a greater degree than women without the disease, and are therefore at a higher risk of sexual transmission.
In the world of these cases, 57% are HIV positive.
Data on monkeypox virus infection in heterosexual women highlight the risk of non-sexual transmission, which must be taken into account when diagnosing suspected cases.
Both publications will be very useful in predicting the development of monkeypox disease through better diagnosis and treatment of the disease, in both men and women.Mitja said.
After the results obtained in trans women, the researcher explained that she is “A very weak group, which must be the subject of a certain approach”🇧🇷
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