Gender-Specific Combination HIV Prevention for Youth in High-Burden Settings: The MP3 Youth Observational Pilot Study Protocol

Jasmine Buttolph   ^{1 *} , MPH ;   Irene Inwani   ^{2 *} , MD, MPH ;   Kawango Agot   ³ , PhD, MPH ;   Charles M Cleland   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Peter Cherutich   ^{4 *} , MBChB, MPH, PhD ;   James N Kiarie   ^{2 *} , MBChB,MMed,MPH ;   Alfred Osoti   ^{5 *} , MBChB, MMed, MPH ;   Connie L Celum   ^{6 *} , MD, MPH ;   Jared M Baeten   ^{6 *} , MD,MPH ;   Ruth Nduati   ^{2 *} , MBChB, MMed, MPH ;   John Kinuthia   ^{2 *} , MBChB, MMed, MPH ;   Timothy B Hallett   ^{7 *} , PhD ;   Ramzi Alsallaq   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Ann E Kurth   ^{8 *} , PhD, CNM, MPH

¹ New York University, College of Nursing Global, New York, NY, United States

² University of Nairobi, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

³ Impact Research & Development Organization (IRDO), Kisumu, Kenya

⁴ Kenya Ministry of Health, National AIDS & STI Control Program (NASCOP), Nairobi, Kenya

⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kenyatta National Hospital, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

⁶ University of Washington, School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, United States

⁷ Imperial College London, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London, United Kingdom

⁸ New York University, College of Nursing Global, New York, NY, and Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, CT, United States

*these authors contributed equally