Introduction
Men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by HIV in Malaysia and accounted for 63% of new HIV diagnoses in 2021, a proportion that has been increasing over the past decade [Routine HIV testing and expanded use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) would drastically reduce the population-level burden of HIV [Mobile health (mHealth), particularly smartphone apps, holds great promise for HIV prevention [To address this unmet need, we developed JomPrEP (where “Jom” means “let us” in Bahasa Malaysia), a clinic-integrated smartphone app, designed to provide HIV prevention services for MSM in Malaysia. The development of JomPrEP has been described previously [