title: Youth, Technology, and HIV: Recent Advances and Future Directions.
abstract: Technology, including mobile technologies and social media, offers powerful tools to reach, engage, and retain youth and young adults in HIV prevention and care interventions both in the USA and globally. In this report, we focus on HIV, technology, and youth, presenting a synthesis of recently published (Jan 2014-May 2015) observational and experimental studies relevant for understanding and intervening on HIV risk, prevention, and care. We present findings from a selection of the 66 relevant citations identified, highlighting studies that demonstrate a novel approach to technology interventions among youth in regard to content, delivery, target population, or public health impact. We discuss current trends globally and in the USA in how youth are using technology, as well as emergent research issues in this field-including the need for new theories for developing technology-based HIV interventions and new metrics of engagement, exposure, and evaluation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 130 Mason Farm Road, Bioinformatics Building CB#7030, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA. lisa_hightow@med.unc.edu.
authors.forename: Lisa B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Hightow-Weidman
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 306 Rosenau Hall Campus Box 7440, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7440, USA. kmuessig@med.unc.edu.
authors.forename: Kathryn E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Muessig
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Behavior and Health Education School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, SPH I, Room 3822, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2029, USA. jbauerme@umich.edu.
authors.forename: Jose
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bauermeister
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 306 Rosenau Hall Campus Box 7440, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7440, USA. czhang88@ad.unc.edu.
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, 310 Trent Dr., Room 305, Durham, NC, 27710, USA. sara.legrand@duke.edu.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: LeGrand
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D060145:Text Messaging; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Adolescent; HIV; Internet; Intervention; Mobile phone; Smartphone; Social media; Teen; Youth; eHealth; mHealth