Cell phones: tightening the communication gap in resource-limited antiretroviral programmes
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2006Author
Lester, Richard T
Gelmon, Lawrence
Plummer, FA
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Stepping up telecommunications technology in resource-limited healthcare settings has been included as a World Health Organization/UNAIDS priority [1]. Wireless communications in the form of mobile (cellular) phones have obvious advantages to land-based telecommunications in these regions by bypassing traditionally meager, limited or costly infrastructures. They are already influencing personal and business communications on a wide scale in developing regions [2]. Do they also have a timely potential for use in healthcare? The answer seems obvious, but very little systematic research has been published on this topic in the medical literature
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AIDS: 14 November 2006 - Volume 20 - Issue 17 - p 2242-2244Publisher
Departments of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
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