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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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Seeking sex partners through the internet and mobile phone applications among men who have sex with men in Taiwan

Nai-Ying KoDepartment of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan;Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TaiwanView further author information
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Po-Chia TsengDepartment of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USAView further author information
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Yu-Chao HuangDepartment of Indigenous Languages and Communication, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, TaiwanView further author information
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Yen-Chin ChenInstitute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TaiwanView further author information
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Su-Ting HsuDepartment of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Municipal Kai-Syuan Psychiatric Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;Graduate Institute of Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Counseling, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, TaiwanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 927-931 | Received 02 May 2015, Accepted 09 Dec 2015, Published online: 11 Jan 2016

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