Recently, public health researchers working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta reported on a novel project in which HIV-infected patients allowed access to their social networks.Calling the HIV+ participants “recruiters,” the researchers found that they were "an efficient, high-yield" way to find individuals at high-risk for undiagnosed HIV infection and provide them with counseling, testing, and referral services. The Social Networks project, which was run and heavily studied from October 2003 til December 2005, showed a roughly 5 times greater prevalence of HIV infection among individuals tested via its site as compared to other counseling, testing and referral sites funded by the CDC.
More about the project can be viewed at www.medscape.com/viewarticle/702035.
The Peter Schick Foundation lauds the innovative use of social networking; we are actively reaching out to the community and world at large via our MySpace, Facebook and Twitter pages, as well as the Foundation Blog and our groundbreaking websites:
http://www.myspace.com/schickfoundation
http://twitter.com/peterschick
http://schickfoundationblogger.blogspot.com/
www.schick-foundation.org
www.schickresearch.com
We are pledged to continue seeking out and utilizing new media in our quest to eradicate HIV/AIDS.
Martha Lewis
Project Manager
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