Exploring social networking technologies as tools for hiv prevention for men who have sex with men

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 298-311

  Ramallo, Jorge ^a   Kidder, Thomas ^b   Albritton, Tashuna ^c   Blick, Gary ^b   Pachankis, John ^c   Grandeleski, Valen ^c   Kershaw, Trace ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b World Health Clinicians   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDOM USE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUAL PARTNER; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; ADOLESCENT; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; INTERVIEW; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL STIGMA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FOCUS GROUPS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL STIGMA;

EID: 84939172732     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2015.27.4.298     Document Type: Article

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