weCARE SOCIAL MEDIA INTERVENTION

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
• Description:
  weCare is a social media individual-level intervention. Cyberhealth educators use a combination of social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, texting, and GPS-based mobile apps, such as A4A/Radar, badoo, Grindr, Jack’d, and SCRUFF) to communicate theory -informed messages specific to each participant’s place on the HIV care continuum. Messages are tailored to the specific context of the participant (e.g., age, time since diagnosis, and/or specific challenges with care) to assist in addressing each participant’s unique needs (e.g., medical appointment attendance, provider communication, family challenges, navigati ng healthcare coverage, and other sexual health education such as PrEP information for participants’ sex partners). Cyberhealth educators often ended messages in a question to ensure a two-way conversation and used emojis when appropriate to convey feeling s within messages. Participants also initiate conversations as needed or desired .
• Subjects:
  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Epidemiology Data Interpretation, Statistical Epidemics Epidemiological Monitoring HIV Public Health Surveillance Statistics Tables
• Keywords:
  DHP_HIV_Reports PRS Project HIV Compendium
• Series:
  Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention (NCHHSTP)
• Division:
  DHP - Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Collection(s):
  Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7261eadcd3befdc784a31482a49333bf08912e1630acd472d0a3a80cd816dcbbc505a3c9622fe78e2ba83ce43c49736bc82d05e8186c73f0a32369a8d20a56f7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/149397/cdc_149397_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 326.79 KB ]