Social Media Monitoring of Discrimination and HIV Testing in Brazil, 2014-2015.

ABSTRACT: Big data can be used to assess perceptions about public health issues. This study assessed social media data from Twitter to inform communication campaigns to promote HIV testing and reduce discrimination related to HIV/AIDS or towards key populations to the HIV epidemic, and its potential utility to evaluate such campaigns through HIV testing uptake. Tweets from Brazil were collected from January 2014 to March 2015 and filtered by four categories of keywords including discrimination, HIV prevention, HIV testing, and HIV campaigns. In total over 100,000 geo-located tweets were extracted and analyzed. A dynamic online dashboard updated daily allowed mapping trends, anomalies and influencers, and enabled its use for feedback to campaigns, including correcting misconceptions. These results en

SUBMITTER: Nielsen RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5515980 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature