Text Messaging for Health

 
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Region: 
Africa & Middle East
Country: 
South Africa
Partners: 
Women for Peace South Africa;
University of California Los Angeles;
DPS Health;
Peers for Progress Program of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation;
UCLA Global Center for Children and Families;
Activities: 

The initiative aimed to study the effectiveness of a SMS intervention among low-income women in South Africa living with type-2 diabetes. The pilot study was designed to determine if regular support from a peer (who also has diabetes) using a new text messaging application can provide simple and affordable approaches of peer-to-peer social support and offer effective educational and motivational messages.

Further reading: 

DPS Health 2010, DPS Health and UCLA Launch Text Messaging for Health Program in South Africa, Press release, 22 Apr. 2010

O'Sullivan, M. 2010, Project Uses Texting to Help South African Diabetes Patients, Voice of America, 10 June 2010

[added June 2010]

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