The Wyckoff Heights Medil Center Brooklyn has been g popular gay datg apps to get at-risk dividuals tted for HIV and on preventive meditn.
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- GAY DATG APP GRDR NOW OFFERS HIV TT REMRS
- GAY DATG APP GRDR SAYS SHARED HIV STAT OF ERS
- ENGAGG SEXUAL AND GENR MORY YOUTH HIV INTERVENTNS THROUGH GAY DATG APPS: RECMENT PROTOL
GAY DATG APP GRDR NOW OFFERS HIV TT REMRS
Courty Gira FenrisWyckoff Heights Medil Center is thought to be the first health center New York Cy — and perhaps beyond — to rporate gay datg apps such as Grdr, Jack’d and Scff to s sexual health efforts.
The center says the novative approach is workg: Sce s lnch 2016, the program has attracted more than 300 clients to the of the clients are black and Hispanic gay men and trans women, groups that are disproportnately affected by HIV. Gay and bisexual men prised 70 percent of the new HIV diagnos the U.
GAY DATG APP GRDR SAYS SHARED HIV STAT OF ERS
2017, and of those gay and bisexual men diagnosed wh HIV, 37 percent were black and 29 percent were Hispanic, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and program’s lnchThe program was started by Antón Castellanos-Usigli, who had jt fished his master’s gree public health at Columbia Universy when 2015 he was reced by Wyckoff Heights Medil Center. “The center hired me precisely bee they wanted to crease the number of gay and bisexual Hispanic clients, ” Castellanos-Usigli, who had migrated om Mexi 2013, said. Shortly after beg hired, Castellanos-Usigli rells thkg to himself, “You are young, you're Hispanic yourself, where do you talk to other gay guys about sex?
ENGAGG SEXUAL AND GENR MORY YOUTH HIV INTERVENTNS THROUGH GAY DATG APPS: RECMENT PROTOL
However, Gonzalez said, oftentim those who are succsfully ntacted through gay datg apps go on to tell their iends about the center’s servic. ‘We have to treat the whole person’Through Grdr and other gay datg apps, the center brgs clients to s Stat Ntral program, which aims to keep HIV-posive patients at an untransmtable viral load and protect HIV-negative patients agast fectn through ndoms, regular ttg and PrEP or preexposure s lnch, the center has standardized the practice and tracked s rults.