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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, [...]

Developing solutions

Mar 212011
Developing solutions

Nature – 15 July 2010 Developing solutions T. V. Padma Nature 466 , S16–S17 (15 July 2010) 14 July 2010 There is more to combating HIV in the developing world than providing affordable drugs. T. V. Padma looks at the innovative new strategies being employed. “Mambo?” The single Kiswahili word for “How are you?” arrives in a weekly text message from the AIDS clinic in Nairobi. From Kajiado, 200 miles away, the clinic’s patients, mostly members of pastoral Maasai communities, respond with “Sawa” (OK) or “Shida” (problem). If, after two days, the patient does not respond, a nurse follows up [...]

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, [...]

Phones against AIDS

Mar 122011
Phones against AIDS

Panorama – 13 March 2009 Phones against AIDS by Kate Jongbloed Mar 13, 2009 You and I might use text messaging to remind our roommate to pick up toilet paper on the way home from work, but around sub-Saharan Africa, mobile phones are taking on a new role as tools against the AIDS pandemic that is ravaging the continent. In recent years, Africa’s internet infrastructure hasn’t kept pace with the continent’s booming growth in cell phone access. Some estimates in South Africa suggest that 74 percent of youth use mobile phones on a regular basis, whereas only 6 percent access [...]

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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