Scaled-up mobile phone intervention for HIV care and treatment: Protocol for a facility randomized controlled trial

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  L'Engle, Kelly L ^a   Green, Kimberly ^a   Succop, Stacey M ^a   Laar, Amos ^b   Wambugu, Samuel ^a  

^a FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cluster RCT; Ghana; HIV; HIV care and treatment; Implementation science; MHealth; Mobile phones

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009991183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.3659     Document Type: Article

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