ArticleBMC digital health2024
From Virus to Viral: Content Analysis of HIV-related Twitter Messages among Young Men in the U.S.
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- Decoding HIV Discourse on Social Media: Large-Scale Analysis of 191,972 Tweets Using Machine Learning, Topic Modeling, and Temporal Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Role of Artificial Intelligence and Personalized Medicine in Enhancing HIV Management and Treatment Outcomes.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Background: Adolescents and young adults account for over 21% of new HIV infections in the U.S. with most new cases among young men. As an important information source for this group, social media can uniquely reveal the perspectives and communicative patterns of this key population. We identified 6,439 young male Twitter users (ages 13-24) in the U.S. using an NLP pipeline with geolocations. From their Twitter timelines, we collected 24,600 HIV-related tweets, among which the most retweeted and favorited tweets ( Results: Three themes arose in this online viral discourse around HIV among young men: (i) Conclusion: The social acceptability of high-risk sex behaviors is high among young male Twitter users. Given the double-edged nature of social media-health-promoting (e.g., awareness, health activism) as well as risk-promoting (e.g., risky behavior endorsement, identity attacks)- this population may benefit from targeted health communication intervention. Future HIV prevention efforts should counter the stigma, misinformation, and risk-promoting viral messages prevalent on social media.
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