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Open Access
01-05-2014 | ePoster presentation
Feasibility of a Short Message Service based intervention to improve adherence among HIV-positive youth in Uganda: a focus group study
Authors:
Yashodhara Rana, Barbara Mukasa, Andrew Kambugu, Peter Wabukala, Crystal Huang, Glenn J Wagner, Sebastian Linnemayr
Published in:
BMC Infectious Diseases
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Special Issue 3/2014
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Excerpt
More than half of those newly infected with HIV are young people yet youths have lower medication adherence than adults. Short message service (SMS) based interventions have demonstrated their effectiveness in improving adherence among adults in resource limited settings, but their efficacy with youths has not been studied. This study is one of the first qualitative studies to explore youths view on strategies for best implementing SMS based interventions. …