The feasibility of recruiting and retaining men who have sex with men and transgender women in a multinational prospective HIV prevention research cohort study in sub-Saharan Africa (HPTN 075).
Theodorus G M SandfortErica L HamiltonAnita MaraisXu GuoJeremy SugarmanYing Q ChenVanessa CummingsSufia DadabhaiKaren DominguezRavindre PanchiaDavid SchnabelFatima ZuluDoerieyah ReynoldsOscar RadebeCalvin MbedaDunker KambaBrian KanyembaArthur OgendoMichael StirrattWairimu ChegeJonathan LucasMaria FawzyLaura A McKinstrySusan H EshlemanPublished in: Journal of the International AIDS Society (2021)
HPTN 075 successfully enrolled a multinational sample of MSM/TGW in SSA in a prospective HIV prevention research study with a high retention rate and few documented social harms. This supports the feasibility of conducting large-scale research trials in this population to address its urgent, unmet HIV prevention needs.