The Feasibility and Acceptability of an mHealth Conversational Agent Designed to Support HIV Self-testing in South Africa: Cross-sectional Study

Xolani Ntinga   ^{1 *} , MSocSci ;   Franco Musiello   ^{1 *} , MSocSci ;   Alfred Kipyegon Keter   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , MSc ;   Ruanne Barnabas   ^{4, 5} , DPhil ;   Alastair van Heerden   ^{1, 6 *} , PhD

¹ Centre for Community Based Research, Human Sciences Research Council, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

² Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

³ Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

⁴ Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ South African Medical Research Council/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

*these authors contributed equally