BioMed Central Ltd
HIV services access
China
Crowdsourcing, the process of shifting individual tasks to a large group, is being used to enhance various aspects of the HIV response – and in a similar way to some aspects of social media, on which crowdsourcing often relies. For example, crowdsourcing ideas and experiences from a certain community has been successfully used to shape information materials for an HIV testing campaign and inform decision makers of the views of groups most affected by HIV, such as young people