American Cohort to Study HIV Acquisition Among Transgender Women in High-Risk Areas (The LITE Study): Protocol for a Multisite Prospective Cohort Study in the Eastern and Southern United States

Andrea L Wirtz   ¹ , MHS, PhD ;   Tonia Poteat   ² , MPH, PA, PhD ;   Asa Radix   ³ , MD, MPH ;   Keri N Althoff   ⁴ , PhD ;   Christopher M Cannon   ⁵ , MPH ;   Andrew J Wawrzyniak   ⁶ , PhD ;   Erin Cooney   ¹ , MSPH ;   Kenneth H Mayer   ⁷ , MD ;   Chris Beyrer   ¹ , MD, MPH ;   Allan E Rodriguez   ⁸ , MD ;   Sari L Reisner   ^{7, 9, 10, 11} , MA, SCD ;   American Cohort To Study HIV Acquisition Among Transgender Women (LITE)   ¹

¹ Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

² University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

³ Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, NY, United States

⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁵ Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁶ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States

⁷ The Fenway Institute, Boston, MA, United States

⁸ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States

⁹ Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

¹⁰ Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

¹¹ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States