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ArticleAIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education2016

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.

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

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Article in AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Emily HuangDepartment of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Robert W MarlinDepartment of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Sean D YoungDepartment of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Alex MedlineMcGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Jeffrey D KlausnerDepartment of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

Funding

UCLA Rapid, Relevant, Rigorous Implementation Science HubP30MH058107 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI RAPHAEL J LANDOVITZ · 1997 to 2026
$53.5M
Virology CoreP30AI028697 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MITSUYASU, RONALD T. · 1991 to 2018
$39.9M
Mining real-time social media big data to monitor HIV: Development and Ethical IssuesR01AI132030 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI YOUNG, SEAN · 2017 to 2020
$3.4M
HOPE Social Media Intervention for HIV Testing and Studying Social NetworksR01MH106415 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI YOUNG, SEAN · 2015 to 2019
$2.9M
Mining real-time social media big data to monitor HIV: Development and Ethical IssuesR56AI125105 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI CONDIE, TYSON, WANG, WEI · 2016 to 2016
$671k
NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI028697NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI132030NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI125105NIMH NIH HHS P30 MH058107NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH106415
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Los Angeles County, about 25% of men who have sex with men (MSM) are HIV-positive but unaware of their status. An advertisement publicizing free HIV self-tests was placed on Grindr, a smartphone social-networking application, from April 17 to May 29, 2014. Users were linked to http://freehivselftests.weebly.com/ to choose a self-test delivery method: U.S. mail, a Walgreens voucher, or from a vending machine. Black or Latino MSM ≥ 18 years old were invited to take a testing experiences survey. During the campaign, the website received 11,939 unique visitors (average: 284 per day) and 334 self-test requests. Among 57 survey respondents, 55 (97%) reported that using the self-test was easy; two persons reported testing HIV positive and both sought medical care. Social networking application self-testing promotion resulted in a large number of self-test requests and has high potential to reach untested high-risk populations who will link to care if they test positive.

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SmartphoneSocial NetworkingAdultBlack or African AmericanBlack PeopleFollow-Up StudiesHispanic or LatinoHIV InfectionsHIV SeropositivityHomosexuality, MaleHumansLos AngelesMaleMass ScreeningMiddle AgedSurveys and Questionnaires

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PMID27427928
PMCPMC5734054

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