Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Health departments should adopt new notification policies for gay men
Published in Health Risk Factor Week, January 12th, 2004
As the association between syphilis among MSM and the use of the Internet as a means for meeting sex partners grows, health departments must adopt new strategies for partner notification, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the report.
In an analysis of MSM diagnosed with early syphilis in 2002, the San Francisco Department of Health (SFDPH) and the CDC found that Internet chat rooms and sex partner sites...
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