CellPhones4HIV

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Region: 
Africa & Middle East
Country: 
South Africa
Partners: 
Cell-Life;
Vodacom;
USAID;
PEPFAR;
The Raith Foundation;
John Hopkins Health & Education in South Africa;
Right to Care;
Activities: 

Cell-Life is developing solutions that support the management and monitoring of HIV/AIDS. This includes Intelligent Dispensing of Antiretroviral Treatment (iDart) for adherence improvement, the data collection tool Aftercare, and the use of SMS to expand the uptake of HIV testing and follow-up in PMTCT.

Further reading: 

University of Cape Town, Cell-Life

Tolly, K.d., Skinner, D., Nembaware, V., Benjamin, P. 2011, Investigation into the Use of Short Message Services to Expand Uptake of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing, and Whether Content and Dosage Impact, Telemedicine and e-Health, doi:10.1089/tmj.2011.0058.

Leach-Lemens, C. 2009, Using Mobile Phones in HIV Care and Prevention, HIV&AIDS Treatment in Practice, no. 137, pp. 2-7

Tolly, K.d. 2009, Innovative use of cellphone technology for HIV/AIDS behaviour change communications: 3 pilot projects, W3C Conference 2009

Willmers, M., et al., 2009, Case Study 11: Cell-Life, Centre of Education Technology, University of Cape Town

Hessels, X. et al. 2007, Improving the efficiency of monitoring adherence to antiretroviral therapy at primary health care level: a case study of the introduction of electronic technologies in Guguletu, South Africa, Development Southern Africa, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 607-621

Kahn, T. 2007, Cellphones to Help Spread Word on HIV, BusinessDay, 2 Oct. 2007

[added March 2010, updated Dec. 2011]

 

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