Two-way Texting (2wT) to Improve Patient Retention While Reducing the Healthcare Workload in High-Burden Public HIV Clinics in Malawi
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Funding Fogarty Program
Mobile Health (mHealth)
Project Information in NIH RePORTER
Two-way Texting (2wT) to Improve Patient Retention While Reducing the Healthcare Workload in High-Burden Public HIV Clinics in Malawi
Principal Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator(s) (PI)
Feldacker, Caryl
Project Contact Information
Email:
cfeld@uw.edu
Year(s) Awarded
2020–2025
Country
Malawi
Project Description
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where need and resource constraint are highest, sub-optimal antiretroviral treatment (ART) retention threatens to derail global HIV epidemic control efforts. We aim to demonstrate that interactive, two-way texting (2WT) can increase ART retention in a routine setting while providing distinct advantages in terms of data quality, costs, and reduced healthcare worker burden over routine retention efforts. User-centered assessment of successful 2WT integration into the existing electronic medical records system facilitates transfer from research to routine practice, enabling scale-up of this mHealth intervention to improve ART retention across Malawi and SSA.
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