“…Both in the US and abroad, increasing use of the Internet generally, and specifically by populations identified as most at risk for HIV, has coincided with rapid developments in using the Internet for both quantitative and qualitative research (Bockting, Huang, Ding, Robinson, & Rosser, 2005;Bockting et al, 2003;Bowen, 2006;Elford, Bolding, Davis, Sherr, & Hart, 2004a;McFarlane, Bull, & Rietmeijer, 2000;Rhodes, Bowie, & Hergenrather, 2003;Rhodes, DiClemente, Cecil, Hergenrather, & Yee, 2002;Ross, 2005;Ross, Daneback, Må nsson, Cooper, & Tikkanen, 2003;Ross, Må nsson, Daneback, Cooper, & Tikkanen, 2005;Ross, Tikkanen, & Må nsson, 2000;. At least five aspects of the Internet make it a significant advance in HIV prevention research.…”