Identification of Key Influencers for Secondary Distribution of HIV Self-Testing Kits Among Chinese Men Who Have Sex With Men: Development of an Ensemble Machine Learning Approach

• Main Authors: Fengshi Jing (Author), Yang Ye (Author), Yi Zhou (Author), Yuxin Ni (Author), Xumeng Yan (Author), Ying Lu (Author), Jason Ong (Author), Joseph D Tucker (Author), Dan Wu (Author), Yuan Xiong (Author), Chen Xu (Author), Xi He (Author), Shanzi Huang (Author), Xiaofeng Li (Author), Hongbo Jiang (Author), Cheng Wang (Author), Wencan Dai (Author), Liqun Huang (Author), Wenhua Mei (Author), Weibin Cheng (Author), Qingpeng Zhang (Author), Weiming Tang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundHIV self-testing (HIVST) has been rapidly scaled up and additional strategies further expand testing uptake. Secondary distribution involves people (defined as "indexes") applying for multiple kits and subsequently sharing them with people (defined as "alters") in their...