This Challenge is seeking innovative storytelling approaches via digital technology, including but not limited to social media channels, to engage targeted, hard-to-reach groups on issues related to HIV prevention, testing, and/or care.
Analysis of social media use shows that, on the whole, most users tend to engage most with information that aligns to their existing beliefs and perceptions on the world.
The internet provides benefits to gay and bisexual men who are marginalized or otherwise excluded from mainstream society by providing a safe space and by alleviating social isolation that may result from societal homophobia
Since 2002, the Vietnam Ministry of Health (MOH) has led a large‐scale HIV prevention, testing, and treatment programme primarily focused on reaching people who inject drugs (PWID), female sex workers (FSW), and, only more recently, men who have sex with men (MSM)
More than 2 million additional people will contract HIV if the international goal to raise $26 billion by 2020 to stop the spread of AIDS is delayed by even five years, and 1 million more will die from it in the coming 12 years.
We conducted an implementation science research (IS) project, assessing the acceptability, feasibility and operationalization of a distribution model whereby key opinion leaders (KOLs) distribute self‐test kits to MSM in Lagos.
