Open AccessDemographics, Behaviors, and Sexual Health Characteristics of High Risk Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women Who Use Social Media to Meet Sex Partners in Lima, Peru
Author(s) -
Jeremy Chow,
Kelika A. Konda,
Gino Calvo,
Jeffrey D. Klausner,
Carlos Cáceres
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0000000000000566
Subject(s) - men who have sex with men , medicine , syphilis , reproductive health , social media , transgender , demography , chlamydia , condom , context (archaeology) , homosexuality , transactional sex , gynecology , population , family medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , gender studies , environmental health , immunology , paleontology , sociology , political science , law , research methodology , biology
Men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TW) in Peru bear a disproportionate burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In a context of quickly expanding communication technology, increasing numbers of MSM and TW are using social media applications to seek sex partners. Understanding social media users and their sex partnering practices is needed to update HIV and STI prevention programming.