HIV Work and Social Networking Sites

According to the Associated Press, a growing number of public health agencies are using social networking websites (MySpace, Facebook, Manhunt etc.) to reach people who may have been exposed to sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV:

Health departments traditionally have used letters and phone calls to set up face-to-face meetings with the partners of people with STIs who visit their clinics, test positive or provide their partner's information to health officials. However, the Internet sometimes allows people to identify their partners only through online names. By accessing popular social networking sites health officials can use online names to contact people's partners and advise them to seek out STI testing and treatment...