Sex risk among young men who have sex with men who use Grindr, a smartphone geosocial networking application

Journal of AIDS and Clinical Research

Volumn 3, Issue SPL ISSUE4, 2012, Pages

  Rice, Eric ^a   Holloway, Ian ^b   Winetrobe, Hailey ^a   Rhoades, Harmony ^a   Barman Adhikari, Anamika ^a   Gibbs, Jeremy ^a   Carranza, Adam ^a   Dent, David ^a   Dunlap, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geosocial networking applications; Grindr; HIV prevention; Sexual risk behavior; Young men who have sex with men (YMSM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879813248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21556113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4172/2155-6113.S4-005     Document Type: Article

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