Published on in Vol 13 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/59873, first published .
The CHALO! 2.0 mHealth-Based Multilevel Intervention to Promote HIV Testing and Linkage-to-Care Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Mumbai, India: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

The CHALO! 2.0 mHealth-Based Multilevel Intervention to Promote HIV Testing and Linkage-to-Care Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Mumbai, India: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

The CHALO! 2.0 mHealth-Based Multilevel Intervention to Promote HIV Testing and Linkage-to-Care Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Mumbai, India: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Jatin Chaudary   1 , BDS, MPH ;   Shruta Rawat   1 , MSc ;   Alpana Dange   1 , MA, MPhil ;   Sarit A Golub   2 , PhD ;   Ryung S Kim   3 , PhD ;   Venkatesan Chakrapani   4 , MD, PhD ;   Kenneth H Mayer   5, 6 , MD ;   Julia Arnsten   7 , MD, MPH ;   Viraj V Patel   7 , MD, MPH

1 Research Unit, The Humsafar Trust, Mumbai, India

2 Department of Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States

3 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States

4 Centre for Sexuality and Health Research and Policy, Chennai, India

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

6 Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

7 Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Health System, Bronx, NY, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Viraj V Patel, MD, MPH
  • Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Montefiore Health System
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  • Bronx, NY, 10467
  • United States
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  • Email: viraj.patel@einsteinmed.edu