Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Mobile HIV Prevention App to Increase HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Initiation Among Rural Men Who Have Sex With Men in the Southern United States: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Jeb Jones   ¹ , MPH, MS, PhD ;   Georgia Manley   ¹ , MPH ;   Tiffany R Glynn   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Kristin M Wall   ¹ , MS, PhD ;   Stefan D Baral   ⁴ , MPH, MD ;   E Danny Harris   ⁵ ;   David Benkeser   ⁶ , MPH, PhD ;   Patrick S Sullivan   ¹ , DVM, PhD

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

² Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

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

⁵ Engaging Arkansas Communities, Little Rock, AR, United States

⁶ Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States