Internet-based screening for sexually transmitted infections to reach nonclinic populations in the community: risk factors for infection in men.

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Published in Sex Transm Dis on December 01, 2010

Authors

Shua J Chai1, Bulbulgul Aumakhan, Mathilda Barnes, Mary Jett-Goheen, Nicole Quinn, Patricia Agreda, Pamela Whittle, Terry Hogan, Wiley D Jenkins, Cornelis A Rietmeijer, Charlotte A Gaydos

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Provision of HIV Self-Test Kit to Emergency Department Patients | NCT03021005

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