Delivery of Multilingual mHealth Service for Control of TB/HIV in Developing Countries

A large number of people living with Tuberculosis/HIV fail treatment and develop resistance to drugs as they fail to maintain proper drug adherence. With the growing crisis of inadequate healthcare workforce in developing countries, mHealth services (healthcare using mobile communication technologies) are gaining support as an effective tool to handle the situation, especially where technological and human resources are limited. This paper illustrates the delivery of one such service where a simple and inexpensive SMS-based mHealth application can e used to assist in TB/HIV treatment.