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Acceptability of an internet-based partner notification system for sexually transmitted infection exposure among men who have sex with men.

Mimiaga MJ, Fair AD, Tetu AM, Novak DS, Vanderwarker R, Bertrand T, Adelson S, Mayer KH

Fenway Institute, Fenway Community Health, Prudential Tower, 4th Fl, 800 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02199, USA. mmimiaga@fenwayhealth.org

US men who have sex with men (n=1848) completed an online questionnaire about their willingness to use Internet-based partner notification. Eighty-one percent reported that it would be important to them to receive a partner notification e-mail if they had been exposed to a sexually transmitted infection. Seventy percent reported that if infected, they would use a public health specialist to inform partners of possible exposure through Internet notification. There was broad acceptance of Internet partner notification by at-risk US men who have sex with men, including a willingness to receive or initiate a notification e-mail.

Published 13 May 2008 in Am J Public Health, 98(6): 1009-11.
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