An Evaluation of Social Media and Geospatial Dating Apps for Recruitment of a National Sample of Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in the LITE-2 Study.
In 2022, over two thirds of individuals diagnosed with HIV in the United States were people of color, half resided in the south, and 67% of new cases were attributed to male-to male sexual transmission (Centers For Disease Control, 2024). To combat these health disparities, the Ending the HIV Epidem...
| Publicado en: | AIDS & Behavior Vol. 30; no. 8; pp. 2584 - 2592 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2026
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