Adherence counseling and reminder text messages improve uptake of antiretroviral therapy in a tertiary hospital in Nigeria

Abstract

Adherence counseling and text message reminders improved adherence among HIV patients. Its adoption for HIV patient management is advocated.

Mobile health applications for HIV prevention and care in Africa

“…Although no significant differences in patient virologic outcomes were found, but qualitative analyses reported broad support for intervention and improvements in the logistics of delivering patient care [24]. In Malawi, the K4Health Project is a knowledge management project designed to increase the dissemination and use of the latest research and best practices to improve processes among HIV community health There are four trials included in this plot [6][7][8][9] and the dots represent the point estimates for the odds of adherence in patients receiving the intervention as reported by the four trials. Whiskers represent the 95% confidence intervals around these point estimates.…”

“…trial in Cameroon found no effect of SMS on adherence to ART [8], whereas a more recent trial in Nigeria found that SMS in combination with counseling was a very effective strategy [9]. A metaanalysis of eight studies found that SMS-based interventions resulted in a nearly 40% higher odds of adherence compared with control conditions, with further advantage for less frequent SMS messaging (i.e.…”

Novel Interventions for HIV Self-management in African American Women: A Systematic Review of mHealth Interventions

“…Of the published articles focusing on African Americans, the participants are largely men (Gritz et al, 2013;Zou et al, 2013). Among studies where the majority of participants were women, the women were not AA (Maduka & Tobin-West, 2013). The studies conducted with AA women were either not RCTs (Chander et al, 2012) or did not enroll PLWH (Whiteley et al, 2011) and were focused on reducing HIV risks (Jones et al, 2013) rather than living with HIV.…”

Silent reintroduction of wild-type poliovirus to Israel, 2013 – risk communication challenges in an argumentative atmosphere

“…This approach proved effective in motivating people to comply with medical recommendations as previously described [15].…”