Project Stronger Together: Protocol to Test a Dyadic Intervention to Improve Engagement in HIV Care Among Sero-Discordant Male Couples in Three US Cities

Rob Stephenson   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc, PhD ;   Nicolas A Suarez   ^{1, 3 *} , BS ;   Robert Garofalo   ^{4, 5 *} , MD, MPH ;   Marco A Hidalgo   ^{4, 5 *} , PhD ;   Samuel Hoehnle   ^{4, 5 *} , BA ;   Jennie Thai   ^{5 *} , BA ;   Matthew J Mimiaga   ^{6, 7, 8, 9 *} , ScD, MPH ;   Emily Brown   ^{9 *} , BA ;   Anna Bratcher   ^{10 *} , MSPH ;   Taylor Wimbly   ^{10 *} , MPH ;   Patrick Sullivan   ^{10 *} , PhD, DVM

¹ Center for Sexual and Health Disparities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

² Department of Health Behaviors and Biological Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

³ School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

⁵ Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

⁶ Center for Health Equity Research, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

⁷ Departments of Behavioral and Social Health Sciences and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

⁹ The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA, United States

¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

*all authors contributed equally