HIV Prevention Research in Online News and Social Media

Thank you for taking the time to share your views and practice around communications and social media in HIV prevention research and advocacy. This survey should take less than ten minutes to complete.

AVAC and other partners are gathering information to better understand how people use social media and online news sources to stay informed about HIV prevention news. The survey results will be used to improve communications efforts around global HIV prevention research and implementation, policy and advocacy.

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* 1. Do you subscribe to AIDS advocates, reporters and/or scientists, or "like" AIDS-related groups, on Facebook?

Yes

I am not a member of Facebook

If yes, please specify which individuals and/or organizations.

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* 2. Do you use Twitter as a source for news related to HIV prevention?

I use Twitter to stay on top of news in general

I use Twitter for HIV prevention–related news

I do not use Twitter as a news source

I do not have a Twitter account

If yes, what HIV prevention-related Twitter accounts do you follow?

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* 3. Are there other social network sites (e.g., Google+, LinkedIn and Ning) that you use as resource for HIV prevention research news?

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* 4. Do you personally post information about HIV prevention to social media sites?

Yes

If yes, what kind of content are you sharing (e.g., news, mythbusting, messages of support, etc.) on which sites?