Use of Social Media and Mobile Technology as Essential Tools for EHE

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Strategies to engage hard-to-reach youth and young adults through use of social media and related technologies, featuring products and best practices from HRSA’s Social Media/Mobile Technology Initiative that focused on under served and under-insured young people with HIV who were not virally suppressed.

Learning Objectives

  • Provide highlights from SPNS SMMT to improve HIV health outcomes for young people living with HIV.
  • Provide in-depth descriptions of three SMMT interventions.
  • Share knowledge of barriers/challenges in using SMMT to improve HIV health outcomes of people with HIV.
  • Consider the potential use of social media and mobile technologies for managing HIV care outcomes in your work contexts.
  • Describe how to request training and technical assistance to measure and improve existing and proposed social media/mobile technology services within the jurisdiction.

Webinar Sections

  • Learning Objectives, Agenda (3:33)
  • Case Study: Friends HIV Clinic (4:53)
  • Introduction to the Panel  (7:04)
  • Overview of SPNS Social Media/Mobile Technology Initiative (9:01)
  • Overview of SMMT Initiative Sites Functions, Platforms, Participants (12:40)
  • Overview of Positive Peers (21:55)
  • Positive Peers Provides: Published Outcomes (31:54)
  • Overview of YGetIt? (38:49)
  • Overview of weCare (50:32)
  • EHE Jurisdictions and Social Media (1:04:49)
  • Questions & Answers (1:09:48)

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