Young men's preferences for sexually transmitted disease and reproductive health services in San Francisco, California.

Sex Transm Dis

San Francisco Department of Public Health, STD Prevention and Control Services, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.

Published: June 2012

We explored STD (sexually transmitted disease) service preferences among 108 African-American adolescent males recruited from a high-morbidity neighborhood. Participants largely preferred to seek care at traditional STD testing venues (86.5%) rather than nontraditional venues. Additionally, most males preferred receiving STD test results from a clinician (61.1%) rather than online (11.1%) or through email or text message (12.0%). These results highlight the need for continued strengthening of traditional public health clinics to ensure capacity to meet young men's health needs and to improve outreach and access to traditional STD services for young men.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355327PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318249d651DOI Listing

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