While anyone can get monkeypox, it's thought that cases in the current outbreak have been concentrated in communities of men who have sex with men.
"If you look at the truly broad protective nature, you really want to get people who are at risk because of behavior. For example, the MSM population who are on pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV—the very fact that they are on pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV would immediately put them into that classification where they very likely should get vaccinated in a preventive way.
Last week, Paul Hunter, a professor of health protection at the Norwich School of Medicine at the University of East Anglia in the U.K.,that the vaccine should be prioritized for people most at risk of the disease, which he said includes the MSM community and those who"participate in active sexual networks where they have frequent intimate contact with a range of others."
Currently, many jursidictions in the U.S. where the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine is available are limiting availability to those who are deemed at high risk, which differs between states.