Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 5065, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 5065, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2020 Oct;17(5):450-457. doi: 10.1007/s11904-020-00524-z.
Network interventions for HIV prevention represent a potential area for growth in a globalizing world, where persons are more easily connected to one another through social media and networking applications. The basic tenets of network interventions such as (1) selection of a change agent, (2) segmentation, (3) induction, and (4) alteration represent myriad ways to structure network interventions for HIV prevention with the potential for large public health impact.
Recent studies have employed the use of social networking websites such as Facebook to identify key persons to recruit others and disseminate information aimed at decreasing HIV transmission and improving safe sex practices among groups who are more vulnerable to HIV acquisition. Many of these interventions have successfully decreased HIV risk behaviors as well as decreased the spread of HIV among intervention cohorts. Network interventions for HIV prevention provide more opportunities to reach populations who have not been reached through typical efforts employed in clinical and public health settings, though they are not currently widely employed by the public health community and other stakeholders.
在全球化的世界中，网络干预措施是预防 HIV 的一个潜在增长点，因为人们更容易通过社交媒体和社交网络应用程序相互联系。网络干预措施的基本原理，如（1）选择变革推动者，（2）细分，（3）诱导和（4）改变，代表了为预防 HIV 构建网络干预措施的无数种方式，具有对公共卫生产生重大影响的潜力。
最近的研究已经利用 Facebook 等社交网络网站来识别关键人物，以便招募其他人并传播信息，目的是减少 HIV 传播，并改善那些更容易感染 HIV 的群体的安全性行为。许多此类干预措施已成功减少了 HIV 风险行为，并减少了干预人群中 HIV 的传播。预防 HIV 的网络干预措施为那些尚未通过临床和公共卫生环境中通常采用的努力接触到的人群提供了更多的机会，但它们目前尚未被公共卫生界和其他利益相关者广泛采用。
