Assessing the Usage of Dating Sites and Social Networking Sites in Newly Diagnosed HIV Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Harris County, Texas, 2014

Internet based technologies are becoming quite prominent among today’s generation due to its easy accessibility through computer or phone devices. Internet’s relative anonymity leads high risk groups to find it easier to meet sexual partners with similar characteristics through dating sites like Grindr, Jack’D, Adams4Adams etc. and mainstream social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. According to various studies, young MSMs prefer to use dating sites and social networking sites more as a source to meet sexual partners than older MSMs.

Objective

To assess the usage of dating sites and social networking sites for finding sexual partners among newly diagnosed HIV positive MSMs in Harris County in 2014