Tuberculosis
Application of mobile-technology for disease and treatment monitoring of malaria in the "Better Border Healthcare Programme"

The study sought to assess use of cell-phones in a routine malaria prevention and control program, to improve the management of malaria cases on the Thai-Cambodian border. The program used both web-based and mobile interfaces to replace the existing paper-based activities previously used by staff used their patients clients. After a patient was detected and registered onto the system, case-investigation and treatment details were recorded into the database as a part of a wider monitoring program.

Can the power of mobile phones be used to improve tuberculosis diagnosis in developing countries?

Data collection: interviewer –administered; training: Guides

Evaluating the Accuracy of Data Collection on Mobile Phones: A Study of Forms, SMS, and Voice

Abstract: While mobile phones have found broad application in reporting health, financial, and environmental data, there has been little study of the possible errors incurred during mobile data collection. This paper provides the first (to our knowledge) quantitative evaluation of data entry accuracy on mobile phones in a resource-poor setting.

Personal digital assistants to collect tuberculosis bacteriology data in Peru reduce delays, errors, and workload, and are acceptable to users: cluster randomized controlled trial

Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness of a personal digital assistant (PDA)-based system for collecting tuberculosis test results and to compare this new system to the previous paper-based system. The PDA- and paper-based systems were evaluated based on processing times, frequency of errors, and number of work-hours expended by data collectors. METHODS: We conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial in 93 health establishments in Peru. Baseline data were collected for 19 months.

Project Masiluleke

Summary: Project Masiluleke aims to raise widespread public awareness about how to access help; move people to take action resulting in their getting tested for HIV and TB; get those who test positive into treatment; and help them adhere to effective individualized treatment plans that will extend their lives and reduce the human, community, and economic losses associated with what would otherwise be certain and untimely death.The three main project components that support those outcomes are: 1.