X Out TB

 
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Region: 
Asia-Pacific
Country: 
Pakistan
Partners: 
Innovations in International Health of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Interactive Research and Development (IRD);
Indus Hospital Karachi;
Activities: 

In order to reduce treatment non-compliance, a pilot project combined adherence monitoring with an incentive structure. TB patients were given encrypted paper-microfluidics test strips. When the medicine has been taken, a urin test reveales a code which the patient sent via SMS to a database. Compliance is rewarded with free mobile minutes.

Further reading: 

Barclay, E. 2009, Text Messages Could Hasten Tuberculosis Drug Compliance, The Lancet, vol. 373, no. 9657, pp. 15-16

Trafton, A. 2008, Eradicating TB With... Cell Phone Minutes? Massachusetts Institute of Technology News, 4 Jun. 2008

[added March 2010]

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