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The Lancet – WelTel Kenya1 Randomised Clinical Trial – 10 Nov 2010

Mar 212011
The Lancet – WelTel Kenya1 Randomised Clinical Trial – 10 Nov 2010

The Lancet – WelTel Kenya1 Randomised Clinical Trial – 10 Nov 2010 Effects of a mobile phone short message service on antiretroviral treatment adherence in Kenya (WelTel Kenya1): a randomised trial Dr Richard T Lester MD, Paul Ritvo PhD, Edward J Mills PhD, Antony Kariri BSc, Sarah Karanja BSc, Michael H Chung MD, William Jack DPhil, James Habyarimana PhD, Mohsen Sadatsafavi MD, Mehdi Najafzadeh MSc, Carlo A MarraPharmD, Benson Estambale MBChB, Elizabeth Ngugi PhD, T Blake Ball PhD, Lehana Thabane PhD, Lawrence J Gelmon MD, Joshua Kimani MBChB, Marta Ackers MD, Prof Francis A Plummer MD. The Lancet, Volume 376, [...]

World Health Organisation - Essential Medicines Monitor - November 2009

Mar 182011
World Health Organisation - Essential Medicines Monitor - November 2009

World Health Organisation – Essential Medicines Monitor – November 2009 Mobilizing cell phones to improve antiretroviral adherence and follow-up in Kenya: a randomized controlled trial in progress Richard Lester and Antony Kariri The heart of the HIV/AIDS pandemic lies in regions traditionally lacking in modern infrastructures. Mobile/cellular telephone networks are breaking that pattern. Cell phone access and use is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa faster than anywhere else in the world. The United Nations has recognized that placing more cell phones in people’s hands leads to economic empowerment and can even increase gross domestic product (GDP).1 Access to health care should [...]

The HAART cell phone adherence trial (WelTel Kenya1): a randomized controlled trial protocol

Mar 182011
The HAART cell phone adherence trial (WelTel Kenya1): a randomized controlled trial protocol

Trials – 22 Sep 2009 Trials Study protocol The HAART cell phone adherence trial (WelTel Kenya1): a randomized controlled trial protocol Richard T Lester*1,2, Edward J Mills3, Antony Kariri1, Paul Ritvo4, Michael Chung5, William Jack6, James Habyarimana6, Sarah Karanja1, Samson Barasa1, Rosemary Nguti1, Benson Estambale7, Elizabeth Ngugi1, T Blake Ball2, Lehana Thabane8, Joshua Kimani1,2, Lawrence Gelmon1,2, Marta Ackers9 and Francis A Plummer2,10 Address: 1Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, UNITID Building, Nairobi, Kenya, 2Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 3BC Centre for Excellence in HIV, St. Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, [...]

Mobile phones: exceptional tools for HIV/AIDS, health, and crisis management

Mar 122011
Mobile phones: exceptional tools for HIV/AIDS, health, and crisis management

Lancet – Dec 2008 Mobile phones: exceptional tools for HIV/AIDS, health, and crisis management Authors: Richard Lester, Sarah Karanja The original Lancet article can not be shown on this website due to copyright issues. If you would like to read the original article, click here.

Cell phones: tightening the communication gap in resource-limited antiretroviral programmes?

Mar 122011
Cell phones: tightening the communication gap in resource-limited antiretroviral programmes?

AIDS – 14 November 2006 Cell phones: tightening the communication gap in resource-limited antiretroviral programmes? Lester, Richard T; Gelmon, Lawrence; Plummer, Francis A AIDS: 14 November 2006 – Volume 20 – Issue 17 – p 2242-2244 Stepping up telecommunications technology in resource-limited healthcare settings has been included as a World Health Organization/UNAIDS priority [1]. Wireless communications in the form of mobile (cellular) phones have obvious advantages to land-based telecommunications in these regions by bypassing traditionally meager, limited or costly infrastructures. They are already influencing personal and business communications on a wide scale in developing regions [2]. Do they also have [...]

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