Ma Baoli, a former policeman, launched the gay dating mobile application Blued in , after starting an online resource center for the LGBT community called Danlan. The app company has 60 employees and more than 15 million users, making it the largest platform of its kind in the world.
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Ma said he plans to add an e-commerce function to Blued this year. The company also launched an English-language version of the app in the Netherlands on Feb. Foreign and Chinese investors have shown interest in the dating app.
Paul Thompson, the founder of LGBT Capital, said marketing to the LGBT community in China is still at an early stage of development, and he cited as obstacles a lack of understanding of the market and of strategies that could be used to target consumers. See this report at Caixin Online.
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BABA Grindr users were asked to fill in a survey giving basic details and were then able to order a test sent by post. The test came with advice on HIV transmission risk, and Single Step ran a hour hotline during the project to offer advice and support to those who tested positive. More than half the 1, people who filled out the initial survey said they did not know their HIV status and about one in four said they never or rarely used a condom. Almost one in three said they had never been tested for HIV before, and a further quarter had not checked their status in more than a year.
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A total of people ordered tests and people reported their results back to Single Step, of whom ten tested positive and were diagnosed with HIV. A similar scheme to distribute tests via popular gay dating websites is currently taking place in the Czech Republic.
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A study looking at another pilot targeting Grindr users in the U. Some critics have pointed out that asking users to test at home leaves them without expert support if they are positive.
Grindr has stressed the data was only used to test new features and was never sold or available to advertisers. Taskov also raised concerns over cost, saying the self-tests were considerably more expensive than a standard blood test. However, advocates say that prevention is cheaper than treatment and HIV home tests have been commended by the World Health Organization, which says they have potential to reach groups who might not otherwise check their status.