{"id":1661,"date":"2015-12-15T21:36:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2016-01-05T20:35:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T20:35:40","slug":"effects-of-brief-messaging-about-undiagnosed-infections-detected-through-hiv-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"Effects of brief messaging about undiagnosed infections detected through HIV testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIV continues to disproportionately impact African American\/black and Latino Men who have Sex with Men (MSM), underscoring the importance of effective messages about HIV testing and prevention for racial\/ethnic minority men. While serving as an intern at CDC in January 2014, Drake lab graduate student Paige Miller assisted with a study to quantitatively assess how a brief message regarding HIV testing and unknown infections among black and Latino MSM impacts behavioral intent for HIV testing and condom use. The message tested in this study was: \u201cIt is important to get tested for HIV. Some people have HIV and do not know it. A recent study of (black or Latino) gay and bisexual men found that about 1 out of 10 of them had HIV and did not know it.3\u201d The vast majority of men (89%) said they were more likely to take an HIV test in the future after reading the message. Younger (18-29, vs 40+, years old) and Latino (vs black) men were more likely to say the message enhanced their intent to get tested in the future. For further details, see the published paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/26562698\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mansergh, G., Miller, P., Herbst, J. H., Mimiaga, M. J., &amp; Holman, J. 2015. Effects of brief messaging about undiagnosed infections detected through HIV testing among Black and Latino men who have sex with men in the United States. <em>Sexually Transmitted Diseases<\/em> 42:691-693.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIV continues to disproportionately impact African American\/black and Latino Men who have Sex with Men (MSM), underscoring the importance of effective messages about HIV testing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epidemics","category-new-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}