Protecting Men Who Have Sex With Men From HIV Infection With an mHealth App for Partner Notification: Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traditional partner notification methods have been implemented for HIV-infected patients, as well as HIV treatment, in order to identify people at risk of HIV infection, especially men who have sex with men (MSM), since they are more likely to have casual sex partners. These traditional methods have some limitations.

Objective

Our study focused on developing an mHealth app to improve partner notification in practice for MSM; the study then focused on evaluating the effects of the app.

Methods

We developed an mHealth app with different modules using Java and HTML5 and tested it in an MSM community to prevent HIV transmission. The HIV incidence stratified by different follow-up periods were calculated. Poisson regression and social networks were used to estim

SUBMITTER: Yan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7057823 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature