Social Media Communication and Network Correlates of HIV Infection and Transmission Risks Among Black Sexual Minority Men: Cross-sectional Digital Epidemiology Study.
Lindsay E YoungJack Lipei TangYuanfeixue NanPublished in: JMIR formative research (2022)
Finding innovative strategies to detect BSMM at risk of contracting or transmitting HIV is critical to eliminating HIV disparities in this community. The findings suggest that social media data enable passive observance of social and communicative contexts that would otherwise go undetected using traditional HIV surveillance methods. As such, social media data are promising complements to more traditional data sources.
Keyphrases
- social media
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv positive
- hiv infected
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv testing
- health information
- hiv aids
- electronic health record
- hepatitis c virus
- cross sectional
- men who have sex with men
- mental health
- healthcare
- big data
- public health
- south africa
- machine learning
- risk assessment
- network analysis
- artificial intelligence