Epic Allies, a Gamified Mobile Phone App to Improve Engagement in Care, Antiretroviral Uptake, and Adherence Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men and Young Transgender Women Who Have Sex With Men: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Sara LeGrand   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Kathryn E Muessig   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Alyssa Platt   ^{3 *} , MA, ;   Karina Soni   ^{4 *} , BA ;   Joseph R Egger   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Nkechinyere Nwoko   ^{5 *} , BA ;   Tobias McNulty   ^{5 *} , MPH ;   Lisa B Hightow-Weidman   ^{2, 4 *} , MPH, MD

¹ Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

² Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

³ Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁵ Caktus Group, Durham, NC, United States

*all authors contributed equally