Social Media and HIV: A Systematic Review of Uses of Social Media in HIV Communication.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social media, including mobile technologies and social networking sites, are being used increasingly as part of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and treatment efforts. As an important avenue for communication about HIV, social media use may continue to increase and become more widespread.

Objective

The objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive systematic review of the current published literature on the design, users, benefits, and limitations of using social media to communicate about HIV prevention and treatment.

Methods

This review paper used a systematic approach to survey all literature published before February 2014 using 7 electronic databases and a manual search. The inclusion criteria were (1) primary focus on communication

SUBMITTER: Taggart T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4642795 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature