Published on in Vol 12 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/62830, first published .
Developing a Novel Mobile App to Support HIV Testing and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Formative and Technical Pilot Study

Developing a Novel Mobile App to Support HIV Testing and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Formative and Technical Pilot Study

Developing a Novel Mobile App to Support HIV Testing and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Formative and Technical Pilot Study

Albert Y Liu   1, 2 , MPH, MD ;   Thiago S Torres   3 , PhD ;   Cat-Dancing Alleyne   1 , BA ;   Janie Vinson   1 , BA ;   Kelly Bojan   4, 5 , C-FNP, APRN, DNP ;   Pedro Alonso Serrano   4, 6 , MPH ;   Temitope Oyedele   4 , MD ;   Elizabeth Enriquez-Bruce   7 , MD ;   Patricia Emmanuel   7 , MD ;   Jeb Jones   8 , MPH, MS, PhD ;   Kathryn E Muessig   9 , PhD ;   Susan P Buchbinder   1, 2 , MD ;   Patrick Sullivan   8 , DVM, PhD ;   Lisa B Hightow-Weidman   9 , MPH, MD ;   Hyman Scott   1, 2 , MPH, MD

1 Bridge HIV, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, United States

2 Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

3 Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (INI-Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

4 The Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL, United States

5 Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, United States

6 Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

7 Department of Pediatrics, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States

8 Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

9 College of Nursing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Albert Y Liu, MPH, MD
  • Bridge HIV
  • San Francisco Department of Public Health
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