“…Mobile phone technology allows easy remote communication between health workers and their patients in hard-toreach communities with poor access to healthcare due to deplorable roads or transportation challenges (14)(15)(16). Previous studies have demonstrated that mHealth technologies have the capacity to improve healthcare outcomes such as health workers adhering to case management standards and guidelines (11,(17)(18)(19). One main application of mHealth intervention that has the capacity to improve health workers performance is to send these health workers short message prompts, educational materials on new diagnostic and treatment procedures of cases, clinical guidelines and others (11,17,20,21).In SSA, where healthcare systems continuously face problems like inadequate infrastructure, shortage of resources, and an increasing burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, hypertension, diabetes, among others (22).…”