CareConekta: A Smartphone App to Improve Engagement in HIV Care
HIV/AIDS, Pregnancy Related
About this trial
This is an interventional health services research trial for HIV/AIDS
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- We will only enroll participants attending the Gugulethu Community Health Centre, near Cape Town, South Africa
- HIV-positive
- adult (≥18 years)
- pregnant (≥28 weeks)
- own a smartphone that meets the technical requirements
- willing to opt-in to installation of CareConekta on her personal phone and to mobility tracking
- demonstrate the ability to read simple text language
- willing to be randomized
Exclusion Criteria:
- If an interested participant meets all of the inclusion criteria, there are no additional exclusion criteria
Sites / Locations
- Gugulethu Community Health Centre
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
No Intervention
Experimental
Control
Intervention
The control arm will receive standard CareConekta, which will track their mobility with no additional features.
The intervention arm will receive standard CareConekta, plus text notifications of nearby ART facilities when they have traveled >50 km from the study site for >7 days. At enrollment, participants in the intervention arm also will be able to opt-in to phone call(s) and/or WhatsApp message(s) from study staff to when they have met this travel threshold. The study staff calls and messages will ask about medication supply and will provide assistance with nearby facilities, if requested.