“They recognize me as a doctor”: A peer mobilisation training programme to promote oral HIV self-testing and referral for acute HIV infection screening among gay and bisexual men and transgender women in coastal Kenya, an exploratory study

• Shaun Palmer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: spalmer@iavi.org

  Affiliations Stichting IAVI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8949-202X

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• Maartje Dijkstra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Alex Kigoro,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Khamisi Mohamed,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Nana Mukuria,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Shally Mahmoud,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Evanson Gichuru,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Elise M. van der Elst,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kilifi, Kenya, Department of Global Health, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Eduard J. Sanders

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1062-8921

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