• Resources for Working

With Dating Apps

Dan Wohlfeiler,
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Jen Hecht
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• Building Healthy Online

Communities

• November 28, 2018

 2009: We surveyed three stakeholder groups
about 41 online interventions

18 82 3,050
Website owners/ HIV/STD MSM website
Managers Directors users

How likely Which ideas are most Which interventions

would you be likely to reduce HIV would you be most
to implement and/or STD likely to use?
each idea? transmission?

BUILDING HEALTHY ONLINE COMMUNITIES 4

BHOC Activities based on input from users, HIV/STD
program directors, and app owners

1. Making personal profile options more explicit

2. Automatic HIV/STD testing reminders at users’ choice of interval
3. Comprehensive sexual health information (bhocpartners.org and FAQs)
4. Coordination of advertising design and placement
5. Promoting best practices (what to do and what not to do)
6. Online partner notification and DIS training
7. Anti-stigma campaign (niceaf.org)
 Encourage your clients to fill out profile
options and take advantage of testing
reminders

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bhocpartners.org
 Apps and Partner Services
Where can we?

Grindr and Scruff

• Don’t ask, don’t get complaints.
• If you get kicked off: start again.

Adam4Adam
• Yes.
• Messages only last for ten days for non-paying users
https://toolkitsimulator.org
 Partner Services Technical Assistance
▪ Introducing Technology into Partner
Services: A Toolkit for Programs
http://www.cdc.gov/std/program/ips/defau
lt.htm
▪ National Internet Partner Services Quarterly
Call and Listserve
▪ (NPIN) Site: IPS Community Group
https://npin.cdc.gov/
▪ Email Frank Strona at FHS3@cdc.gov for
more information

Frank Strona Rachel Kachur

fhs3@cdc.gov rlk4@cdc.gov
415.621.4145 404.639.2387
 Where to place ads

Based on BHOC data collected in partnership with AMIS:

• Many users are on more than one app
• Greatest proportion of MSM are using the following sites (in this
order): Grindr, Scruff, Tinder, A4A
• If buying ads on Grindr already, next biggest bang for the buck is: A4A
and Scruff
• If aiming to reach African Americans: Grindr, Jack’d A4A, Tinder (in this order)
• If aiming to reach Latinos: Grindr, Jack’d A4A, Tinder (in this order)
 PSAs on:

Choices
U=U
Three site testing
PrEP is effective
Condoms
Partner notification (self)
Partner notification (DIS)
Good clinic experience
Fighting stigma
Fighting Stigma Campaign: NiceAF
 • Thanks to:
• Heidi Bauer and California STD Control
Branch
•NCSD staff
• Gilead Sciences, Inc.
• All our survey respondents and partners

• For more info or suggestions

• danwohlfeiler@bhocpartners.org
jhecht@sfaf.org
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