Open AccessUsing Social Networks to Understand and Overcome Implementation Barriers in the Global HIV Response
Author(s) -
Guy Harling,
Alexander C. Tsai
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000002203
Subject(s) - homophily , psychological intervention , social network (sociolinguistics) , social network analysis , intervention (counseling) , data collection , respondent , psychology , risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , data science , medicine , social psychology , sociology , social media , political science , world wide web , social science , psychiatry , law
Despite the development of several efficacious HIV prevention and treatment methods in the past 2 decades, HIV continues to spread globally. Uptake of interventions is nonrandomly distributed across populations. Such inequality is socially patterned and reinforced by homophily arising from both social selection (becoming friends with similar people) and influence (becoming similar to friends).