ArticleAIDS patient care and STDs2018
Preliminary Impact of the weCare Social Media Intervention to Support Health for Young Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women with HIV.
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Abstract
Young racial/ethnic minority men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women with HIV often have poor health outcomes. They also utilize a wide array of social media. Accordingly, we developed and implemented weCare, a social media intervention utilizing Facebook, texting, and GPS-based mobile social and sexual networking applications to improve HIV-related care engagement and health outcomes. We compared viral load suppression and clinic appointment attendance among 91 participants during the 12-month period before and after weCare implementation. McNemar's chi-square test analyses were conducted comparing the pre- and postintervention difference using paired data. Since February 2016, intervention staff and 91 intervention participants (79.1% African American and 13.2% Latino, mean age = 25) exchanged 13,830 messages during 3,758 conversations (average: 41.3 conversations per participant) across a variety of topics, including appointment reminders, medication adherence, problem solving, and reducing barriers. There were significant reductions in missed HIV care appointments (68.0% vs. 53.3%, p = 0.04) and increases in viral load suppression (61.3% vs. 88.8%, p < 0.0001) 12 months postimplementation. Our results highlight the initial success of weCare in improving care engagement and viral suppression. Social media is an important tool, especially for young MSM and transgender women, to support individual- (e.g., viral suppression) and community- (e.g., reduced transmission efficiency) level health. It may also be a useful tool for improving engagement with biomedical HIV prevention tools (e.g., PrEP use).
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