Using grindr, a smartphone social-networking application, to increase HIV self-testing among black and latino men who have sex with men in Los Angeles, 2014

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 341-349

  Huang, Emily ^a   Marlin, Robert W ^a   Young, Sean D ^a   Medline, Alex ^b   Klausner, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MACHINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; SELF EVALUATION; SMARTPHONE; SOCIAL NETWORK; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLACK PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SMARTPHONE; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978731128     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2016.28.4.341     Document Type: Article

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