The role of online social networks in improving health literacy and medication adherence among people living with HIV/AIDS in Iran: Development of a conceptual model

• Azam Bazrafshani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Azam Bazrafshani, Sirous Panahi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Library and Information Science, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Sirous Panahi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Azam Bazrafshani, Sirous Panahi

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Panahi.s@iums.ac.ir

  Affiliation Department of Medical Library and Information Science, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7610-906X

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• Hamid Sharifi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HS and EMK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Centre for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Effat Merghati-Khoei

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HS and EMK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Iranian National Centre of Addiction Studies (INCAS), Institute of Risk Reduction, and Sexual & Family Health Division, Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Research Centre (BASIR), Institute of Neuroscience, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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