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International Ballroom South
Tuesday, March 11, 2008: 3:00 PM-4:45 PM

B3: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Internet and STD Prevention

3:00 PMFinding Sex Partners On-Line: What's the Risk for STI? Might There Be a Benefit?
Alia Al-Tayyib, Cornelis Rietmeijer
3:15 PMInternet Information-seeking Behaviors of TV Medical Drama Viewers
Kathy Le, Michelle Cantu, Varian Brandon, Michael Miller, Brooke Hardison Wang, Grace Huang
3:30 PM21st Century STD Prevention and Control: Empowering the Community with Internet-based Tools, San Francisco, 2007
Jeffrey D. Klausner, Jacqueline McCright, Frank Strona, Deborah K. Levine
3:45 PMThe Internet: Obstacles and Solutions to STD Prevention in New Mexico
Arthur Salazar
4:00 PMExpanded STDtest.org Provides San Franciscans with Free Testing and Secure Online Results for Five STDs
Andrew Woodruff, Deborah K. Levine, J.D. Klausner
4:15 PMURhealthstyle.org: Reaching the Massachusetts' MySpace Generation to Promote Comprehensive Health Services, A Joint Partnership between Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) and the Massachusetts Department of Education (MDOE)
Thomas Bertrand, David S. Novak, Joy Robinson-Lynch, Karen Schoneman

The 2008 National STD Prevention Conference of CDC