USING BAIDU SEARCH INDEX TO MONITOR AND PREDICT NEWLY DIAGNOSED CASES OF HIV/AIDS, SYPHILIS AND GONORRHEA IN CHINA: ESTIMATES FROM A VECTOR AUTOREGRESSIVE (VAR) MODEL

Objectives Internet search engine data have been widely used to monitor and predict infectious diseases.Existing studies have found correlations between search data and HIV/AIDS epidemics.We aimed to extend the literature through exploring the feasibility of using search data to monitor and predict the number of newly diagnosed cases of HIV/AIDS, s

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