Castanheira Débora, Pereira Carla R, Jalil Cristina M, Novaes Daniele, Peixoto Eduardo, Fernandez Nilo M, Neto Eduardo C, Bezerra Daniel R B, Alves Anderson S, Jalil Emilia M, Veloso Valdilea G, Mc Farland Willi, Wilson Erin C, Grinsztejn Beatriz, Torres Thiago S
STI/AIDS Clinical Research Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (INI/Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Cult Health Sex. 2024 Dec 3:1-16. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2428329.
Young men who have sex with men in Brazil face vulnerability to HIV and display lower PrEP uptake and adherence. Understanding their engagement with digital technologies can better inform mobile health (mHealth) strategies for HIV prevention and care. As part of the Conectad@s study, a HIV status-neutral prevention and care intervention for young men who have sex with men, we conducted semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with 38 participants between January-February 2021. Participants discussed their use of digital technologies and their perceptions of mHealth interventions for HIV prevention and care. Key findings included the high use of digital technologies for social interaction and to meeting sex partners through dating apps; novel uses of communication and social networking apps to meet sex partners; strong acceptance of mHealth strategies to improve HIV prevention and care, with WhatsApp being the preferred platform; preference for receiving short messages containing information about HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in addition to PrEP reminders; and interest in interacting with research team members, especially peers, to discuss combination HIV prevention.
在巴西，与男性发生性行为的年轻男性面临感染艾滋病毒的风险，且预防艾滋病病毒暴露前预防（PrEP）的使用率和依从性较低。了解他们与数字技术的接触情况可以更好地为艾滋病毒预防和护理的移动健康（mHealth）策略提供信息。作为“Conectad@s研究”的一部分，这是一项针对与男性发生性行为的年轻男性的艾滋病毒状态中性预防和护理干预措施，我们在2021年1月至2月期间对38名参与者进行了半结构化访谈和焦点小组讨论。参与者讨论了他们对数字技术的使用以及对用于艾滋病毒预防和护理的移动健康干预措施的看法。主要发现包括：数字技术在社交互动以及通过约会应用程序结识性伴侣方面的高使用率；通信和社交网络应用程序用于结识性伴侣的新用途；对改善艾滋病毒预防和护理的移动健康策略的强烈接受度，其中WhatsApp是首选平台；除了PrEP提醒外，还倾向于接收包含有关艾滋病毒和其他性传播感染信息的短信；以及与研究团队成员，特别是同龄人互动讨论艾滋病毒联合预防的兴趣。
