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Employing Analysis of Topic Model Networks (ANTMN) and collocation analysis, we extract the thematic networks, terminology for people living with HIV (PLHIV), and HIV\/AIDS metaphors. Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and network backbone method were complementarily employed to examine the interrelationships among discursive strategies and their connections with thematic contexts. Our analysis identifies five major thematic communities: \u201cPrevention and control\u201d, \u201cPublicity\u201d, \u201cSociety\u201d, \u201cMedicine\u201d, and \u201cPLHIV\u201d, encompassing 48 distinct topics. These findings reveal a clear discursive shift towards political and macro-level narratives, moving away from individual and social perspectives. Collocation analysis reveals 19 categories of PLHIV terminology and 12 categories of HIV\/AIDS metaphors. 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