Patient and health-care worker experiences of an HIV viral load intervention using SMS: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile Health or mHealth interventions, including Short Message Service (SMS), can help increase access to care, enhance the efficiency of health service delivery and improve diagnosis and treatment for HIV. Text messaging, or SMS, allows for the low cost transmission of information, and has been used to send appointment reminders, information about HIV counselling and treatment, messages to encourage adherence and information on nutrition and side-effects. HIV Viral Load (VL) monitoring is recommended by the WHO and has been progressively adopted in many settings. In Zimbabwe, implementation of VL is routine and has been rolled out with support of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since 2012. An SMS intervention to assist with the management of VL results was introduced in

SUBMITTER: Venables E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6459516 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature