Formative Evaluation of the Acceptance of HIV Prevention Artificial Intelligence Chatbots By Men Who Have Sex With Men in Malaysia: Focus Group Study

Mary L Peng   ¹ , BA ;   Jeffrey A Wickersham   ^{2, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Frederick L Altice   ^{2, 3, 4, 5} , MD ;   Roman Shrestha   ^{3, 4, 6} , PhD ;   Iskandar Azwa   ^{4, 7} , MD ;   Xin Zhou   ² , PhD ;   Mohd Akbar Ab Halim   ⁴ , BSc ;   Wan Mohd Ikhtiaruddin   ⁴ , MSc ;   Vincent Tee   ⁴ , MD ;   Adeeba Kamarulzaman   ^{2, 4, 7} , MD ;   Zhao Ni   ^{3, 8} , BMedSci, RN, PhD

¹ Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States

² Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

³ Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

⁴ Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

⁵ Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States

⁶ Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States

⁷ Department of Medicine, Infectious Disease Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

⁸ School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States