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Scientists Have A New Weapon Against HIV: Your Phone

Tyler Wray, Brown UniversityOctober 17, 2018February 19, 2019
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  • AIDS
  • Health Technology
  • HIV
  • Mobile Health
  • Mobile Technology
  • Smartphones

In a fast-evolving fight against HIV, public-health workers have a powerful new ally: Most Americans at risk of contracting the virus carry powerful smartphones that they check again and again over the course of the day.

In recent years, we’ve seen revolutionary advances in HIV prevention that could help us achieve a sustained decline in new infections and envision an end of the epidemic. Smartphones can help us make the most of those advances.

Read the full article online at The Boston Globe.


This article was produced by Footnote in partnership with the Brown University School of Public Health.

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Tyler Wray

Tyler Wray

Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Public Health
Brown University

Tyler Wray is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health, where he researches ways technology can be used to improve HIV and STI prevention and care. He is the co-founder of SmashLabs, a research group at Brown that develops and tests mobile health technologies.

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