The mushrooming of online hookup destinations has prompted an increment in HIV-contamination cases, says a study group which has an Indian American part.
Online hookup locales have made it simpler for individuals to have easygoing sex - furthermore less demanding to transmit sexually transmitted illnesses.
"The study underscores the requirement for more extensive correspondence and dispersal of the dangers postured by the sort of internet coordinating stages examined here," said Ritu Agarwal, an educator at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
The presentation of Craigslist, a grown-up dating site, prompted an increment in HIV-contamination instances of 13.5 percent in Florida more than a four-year period, said a study.
Taking a gander at the period from 2002 to 2006, the study found that Craigslist prompted an extra 1,149 Floridians contracting HIV. The new HIV cases came excessively from one racial-ethnic gathering, African Americans, who represented by most accounts 63 percent of the new cases.
"HIV anticipation endeavors have a tendency to concentrate on the most noteworthy danger populaces, for example, the monetarily impeded, however general wellbeing authorities ought to be mindful that online stages may be 'changing the amusement'," Agarwal included.
"We have to better comprehend both the advantageous and in addition the correctional impacts of the Internet on individual and general wellbeing," Agarwal closed.
Online hookup locales have made it simpler for individuals to have easygoing sex - furthermore less demanding to transmit sexually transmitted illnesses.
"The study underscores the requirement for more extensive correspondence and dispersal of the dangers postured by the sort of internet coordinating stages examined here," said Ritu Agarwal, an educator at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
The presentation of Craigslist, a grown-up dating site, prompted an increment in HIV-contamination instances of 13.5 percent in Florida more than a four-year period, said a study.
Taking a gander at the period from 2002 to 2006, the study found that Craigslist prompted an extra 1,149 Floridians contracting HIV. The new HIV cases came excessively from one racial-ethnic gathering, African Americans, who represented by most accounts 63 percent of the new cases.
"HIV anticipation endeavors have a tendency to concentrate on the most noteworthy danger populaces, for example, the monetarily impeded, however general wellbeing authorities ought to be mindful that online stages may be 'changing the amusement'," Agarwal included.
"We have to better comprehend both the advantageous and in addition the correctional impacts of the Internet on individual and general wellbeing," Agarwal closed.
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