Sex on demand: Geosocial networking phone apps and risk of sexually transmitted infections among a cross-sectional sample of men who have sex with men in Los Angeles county

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 567-572

  Beymer, Matthew R ^a,b   Weiss, Robert E ^b   Bolan, Robert K ^a   Rudy, Ellen T ^c   Bourque, Linda B ^b   Rodriguez, Jeffrey P ^a   Morisky, Donald E ^b  

^a LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Sexually Transmitted Disease Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; COCAINE;

ADULT; ANONYMOUS SEX; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIACEAE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG USE; GEOSOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATION; GONORRHEA; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES; WEB BROWSER; YOUNG ADULT; BISEXUALITY; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GONORRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SYPHILIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911396155     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051494     Document Type: Article

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