Mobile phones to support adherence to antiretroviral therapy: What would it cost the Indian National AIDS Control Programme?

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 17, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Rodrigues, Rashmi ^a,b   Bogg, Lennart ^a,c   Shet, Anita ^a,b   Kumar, Dodderi Sunil ^d,e   De Costa, Ayesha ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^c MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d National AIDS Control Organisation   (India)

^e Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society   (India)

Author keywords

Adherence reminders; Costing; India; mHealth; Mobile phones; National AIDS Control Program

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INDIA; INDIAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TEXT MESSAGING; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; REMINDER SYSTEM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; CELL PHONES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INDIA; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; REMINDER SYSTEMS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84907380771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7448/IAS.17.1.19036     Document Type: Article

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