Testing the Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of a Combination HIV Prevention Intervention Among Young Cisgender Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women Who Sell or Exchange Sex in Thailand: Protocol for the Combination Prevention Effectiveness Study

Andrea L Wirtz   ¹ , MHS, PhD ;   Brian Wilson Weir   ² , MHS, PhD ;   Sandra Hsu Hnin Mon   ¹ , BA, MSPH ;   Pachara Sirivongrangson   ³ , MPH, MD ;   Tareerat Chemnasiri   ⁴ , MA, MSc ;   Eileen F Dunne   ^{4, 5} , MPH, MD ;   Anchalee Varangrat   ⁴ , MA ;   Andrew C Hickey   ^{4, 5} , MPH, PhD ;   Michele R Decker   ^{1, 6} , MPH, ScD ;   Stefan Baral   ¹ , MPH, FRCPC, MD ;   Kamolnetr Okanurak   ⁷ , PhD ;   Patrick Sullivan   ⁸ , PhD, DVM ;   Rachel Valencia   ⁸ , MPH ;   Michael C Thigpen   ^{4, 5} , FIDSA, DTM&H, MD ;   Timothy H Holtz   ^{4, 5} , MPH, FACP, FACPM, MD ;   Philip A Mock   ⁴ , MAppStat ;   Betsy Cadwell   ⁵ , MSPH ;   Adeola Adeyeye   ⁹ , MPA, MD ;   James F Rooney   ¹⁰ , MD ;   Chris Beyrer   ¹ , MPH, MD ;   Combination Prevention Effectiveness (COPE) Study Team   ¹

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

² Department of Health, Behavior & Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

³ Department of Disease Control, Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

⁴ HIV/STD Research Program, Thailand MOPH-US CDC Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand

⁵ Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁶ Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁷ Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

⁸ Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁹ Prevention Science Program, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States

¹⁰ Medical Affairs, Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA, United States