According to a September report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were more than 2 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis reported in the United States in — the highest cumulative number ever recorded. Health experts increasingly view apps and sites such as Tinder, Grindr, and OkCupid as enablers of high-risk sex, helping people meet and hook up more efficiently than ever before.
The impact of these sites is so profound they are also transforming the way health officials track and prevent outbreaks. These places, after all, had become important meeting points for men who have sex with men — the group most affected by the HIV epidemic.
They do as little as possible. Health officials in states around the country have linked recent STD outbreaks to the rise in internet dating. In the past, when a person was diagnosed with a serious STD, a public health official would call or meet with his or her sexual partners to talk about getting tested and on potential treatment. And that means any diseases those partners might have can spread more easily too.
An even bigger issue, said Michael Weinstein, the president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, is that apps have also changed the modes of disease transmission in sexual networks, making it easier for infections to spread. Between and , the rate of: Gonorrhea increased by Autor: Marina Shegay.
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