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Michael Kwag

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OByrne P, Kesler M, Orser L, Kwag M, Biggin B, Draenos C
Int J STD AIDS . 2025 Mar; :9564624251324978. PMID: 40024902
Background: HIV self-testing may help achieve the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets because it has the potential to increase testing among equity-denied communities. In 2023, the Public Health Agency of Canada made...
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Yeung A, Lisk R, Rana J, Guiang C, Bacon J, Brunetta J, et al.
J Med Internet Res . 2023 Jun; 25:e40477. PMID: 37384393
Background: Canadian clinical guidelines recommend at least annual and up to quarterly bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing among sexually active gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with...
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Salway T, Juwono S, Klassen B, Ferlatte O, Ablona A, Pruden H, et al.
PLoS One . 2021 Jun; 16(6):e0252539. PMID: 34081740
Background: "Conversion therapy" practices (CTP) are organized and sustained efforts to avoid the adoption of non-heterosexual sexual orientations and/or of gender identities not assigned at birth. Few data are available...
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Rana J, Guiang C, Lisk R, Shahin R, Brunetta J, Mitterni L, et al.
Sex Transm Dis . 2020 Oct; 48(2):94-102. PMID: 33003183
Background: Rates of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to rise among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) globally. Testing and treatment can prevent morbidity...
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Burchell A, Lisk R, Yeung A, Rana J, Bacon J, Brunetta J, et al.
JMIR Res Protoc . 2019 Jul; 8(7):e13801. PMID: 31274111
Background: HIV-positive and HIV-negative (gay, bisexual, and other) men who have sex with men (MSM) have experienced a dramatic increase in bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs)-syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia. STI...
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Gilbert M, Salway T, Haag D, Kwag M, Edward J, Bondyra M, et al.
J Med Internet Res . 2019 Jan; 21(1):e11291. PMID: 30664456
Background: While social marketing (SM) campaigns can be effective in increasing testing for sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs), they are seldom rigorously evaluated and often rely on process measures...
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Gilbert M, Taylor D, Michelow W, Grace D, Balshaw R, Kwag M, et al.
AIDS Behav . 2017 Feb; 22(7):2068-2078. PMID: 28168375
Increased viral load during early HIV infection (EHI) disproportionately contributes to HIV transmission among gay men. We examined changes in sexual behavior that may pose a risk of HIV transmission...
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Grace D, Chown S, Kwag M, Steinberg M, Lim E, Gilbert M
AIDS Educ Prev . 2015 Aug; 27(4):333-49. PMID: 26241383
We explore gay men's sex life narratives following their diagnosis with an acute or recent HIV infection. All participants received an acute (n = 13) or recent (n = 12)...
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Grace D, Steinberg M, Kwag M, Chown S, Doupe G, Trussler T, et al.
Qual Health Res . 2014 Sep; 25(2):205-17. PMID: 25201583
Diagnosing HIV-positive gay men through enhanced testing technologies that detect acute HIV infection (AHI) or recent HIV infection provides opportunities for individual and population health benefits. We recruited 25 men...
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Grace D, Chown S, Jollimore J, Parry R, Kwag M, Steinberg M, et al.
Cult Health Sex . 2014 Feb; PMID: 24571102
We enrolled 166 gay and bisexual men who tested HIV-negative at a community sexual health clinic in Vancouver, British Columbia, into a year-long mixed-methods study. A subsample of participants who...