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Crowdsourcing to expand HIV testing among men who have sex with men in China: A closed cohort stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial

  • Weiming Tang ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Weiming Tang, Joseph D. Tucker

    Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China, Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Dermatology Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9026-707X

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  • Chongyi Wei,

    Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

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  • Bolin Cao,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China, Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, School of Media and Communication, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

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  • Dan Wu,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China, Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0415-5467

    ⨯
  • Katherine T. Li,

    Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China, Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1201-7630

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  • Haidong Lu,

    Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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  • Wei Ma,

    Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Shandong University School of Public Health, Jinan, China

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  • Dianmin Kang,

    Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, China

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  • Haochu Li,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China, Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, Shandong University School of Public Health, Jinan, China

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  • Meizhen Liao,

    Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, China

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  • Katie R. Mollan,

    Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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  • Michael G. Hudgens,

    Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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  • Chuncheng Liu,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China, Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, Department of Sociology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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  • Wenting Huang,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China, Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China

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  • Aifeng Liu,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China, Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China

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  • Ye Zhang,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China, Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, Dermatology Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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  • M. Kumi Smith,

    Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5861-8100

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  • Kate M. Mitchell,

    Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7050-4787

    ⨯
  • Jason J. Ong,

    Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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  • Hongyun Fu,

    Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Division of Community Health and Research, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

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  • Peter Vickerman,

    Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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  • Ligang Yang,

    Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, Dermatology Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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  • Cheng Wang,

    Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Dermatology Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

    ⨯
  • Heping Zheng,

    Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Dermatology Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

    ⨯
  • Bin Yang,

    Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Dermatology Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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  • Joseph D. Tucker

    Contributed equally to this work with: Weiming Tang, Joseph D. Tucker

    Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    * E-mail: jdtucker@med.unc.edu

    Affiliations University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China, Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) Global, Guangzhou, China, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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Crowdsourcing to expand HIV testing among men who have sex with men in China: A closed cohort stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial

  • Weiming Tang, 
  • Chongyi Wei, 
  • Bolin Cao, 
  • Dan Wu, 
  • Katherine T. Li, 
  • Haidong Lu, 
  • Wei Ma, 
  • Dianmin Kang, 
  • Haochu Li, 
  • Meizhen Liao
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  • Published: August 28, 2018
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002645
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