journalArticle Inghels Maxime Kouassi Arsène Kra Niangoran Serge Bekelynck Anne Carillon Séverine Sika Lazare Koné Mariatou Danel Christine Desgrées du Loû Annabel Larmarange Joseph for the research team ANRS 12323 DOD-CI Côte d’Ivoire Men who have sex with men Phone-based survey Respondent-driven sampling Telephone peer recruitment and interviewing during a respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey: feasibility and field experience from the first phone-based RDS survey among men who have sex with men in Côte d’Ivoire Many respondent-driven sampling (RDS) methodologies have been employed to investigate hard-to-reach populations; however, these methodologies present some limits. We describe a minimally investigated RDS methodology in which peer recruitment and interviewing are phone-based. The feasibility of the methodology, field experiences, validity of RDS assumptions and characteristics of the sample obtained are discussed. 25 2021-02-05 Telephone peer recruitment and interviewing during a respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01208-x 2021-02-08 15:15:22 BioMed Central All rights reserved BMC Medical Research Methodology 21 1 BMC Medical Research Methodology DOI 10.1186/s12874-021-01208-x ISSN 1471-2288