Increasing HIV Testing and Viral Suppression via Stigma Reduction in a Social Networking Mobile Health Intervention Among Black and Latinx Young Men and Transgender Women Who Have Sex With Men (HealthMpowerment): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Kathryn Elizabeth Muessig   ¹ , BA, PhD ;   Jesse M Golinkoff   ² , MPH ;   Lisa B Hightow-Weidman   ³ , MPH, MD ;   Aimee E Rochelle   ⁴ , MPH ;   Marta I Mulawa   ⁵ , MHS, PhD ;   Sabina Hirshfield   ⁶ , PhD ;   A Lina Rosengren   ³ , MPH, MS, MD ;   Subhash Aryal   ² , PhD ;   Nickie Buckner   ⁷ , BS, MCS ;   M Skye Wilson   ⁴ , MSED ;   Dovie L Watson   ⁸ , MSCE, MD ;   Steven Houang   ¹ , BA ;   José Arturo Bauermeister   ² , MPH, PhD

¹ Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

² Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

³ Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁴ Behavior and Technology Lab, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁵ School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

⁶ Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, United States

⁷ One Cow Standing, LLC, Durham, NC, United States

⁸ Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States