Social Media can be Used to Monitor HIV Risk, Drug Use

A new study reveals that real-time social media like Twitter could be used to track HIV incidence and drug-related behaviors with the aim of detecting and potentially preventing outbreaks. It may be possible to predict sexual risk and drug use behaviours by monitoring tweets, mapping where those messages come from and linking them with data on the geographical distribution of HIV cases. "This is the first such study. We can use 'big data' from social ...

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