Grindr, a popular software for homosexual and bisexual males, announced today the addition of optional HIV-related areas in individual pages, such as for instance HIV status (including invisible), final HIV test date, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) usage.
Seven years back, Grindr established since the first software for homosexual males to mix the publishing of pages searching for intercourse or lovers with geolocation capability, makes it possible for users to get other people within the immediate part of their smart phones or neighborhood. While other apps have later accompanied the most popular industry of electronic cruising, Grindr continues to be the one that is largest for homosexual and bi guys, with 2 million users on a daily basis from 197 nations.
In a draft article offered to TheBody.com announcing this new modifications, Jack Harrison-Quintana, manager of Grindr for Equality, stated that the working platform hopes to ???create an available discussion among our users about intimate wellness. Honesty, compassion, and training lay the building blocks to make Grindr a much safer room for dudes to get in touch, and then we can all play a role in getting here.???
???Users won??™t have the ability to filter who they see into the application according to HIV status,??? he noted. ???Filling out of the HIV status field is completely optional.???
- HIV-positive.
- HIV-positive, invisible.
- HIV-negative.
- HIV-negative, On PrEP.
Some other popular apps consist of industries on HIV status and HIV prevention. As an example, a year ago Scruff added a drop-down menu with three HIV prevention methods ??” condoms, PrEP and therapy as avoidance (TasP) ??” that can easily be chosen independently or in combination for users to spell out their HIV prevention methods. [Read more…]