Testing the Feasibility and Acceptability of Using an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot to Promote HIV Testing and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Malaysia: Mixed Methods Study

Min Hui Cheah   ¹ , MClinPharm ;   Yan Nee Gan   ² , MSc ;   Frederick L Altice   ^{3, 4, 5, 6} , MA, MD ;   Jeffrey A Wickersham   ^{3, 5, 6} , PhD ;   Roman Shrestha   ^{5, 6, 7} , MPH, PhD ;   Nur Afiqah Mohd Salleh   ² , PhD ;   Kee Seong Ng   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Iskandar Azwa   ^{1, 6} , MD ;   Vimala Balakrishnan   ⁸ , PhD ;   Adeeba Kamarulzaman   ⁹ , MBBS ;   Zhao Ni   ^{5, 10} , PhD, BMed

¹ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

² Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

³ Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

⁴ Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States

⁵ Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

⁶ Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

⁷ Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States

⁸ Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

⁹ Monash University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

¹⁰ School of Nursing, Yale University, Orange, CT, United States