{"id":966,"date":"2014-08-25T14:29:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bccdcfound.wpengine.com\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/"},"modified":"2014-08-25T14:29:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:29:18","slug":"mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"mHealth Pilot for HIV\/AIDS in BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"u15410-109\">Project Duration: May 1, 2011 to April 30, 2013<\/p>\n<p id=\"u15410-111\">Patient engagement in care and adherence to medication are critical to achieving the full benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people with HIV infection. A randomized control trial in Kenya, WelTelKenya1, showed that an interactive mobile phone text messaging intervention can improve adherence and viral load suppression. A small scale pilot study, WelTel BC1, was conducted with individuals taking HAART to assess the acceptability and feasibility of the WelTel model in a Canadian setting. Patients and healthcare providers at the Oak Tree Clinic were enthusiastic about the intervention, found it feasible, and believed it can improve care. The results of this research support the use of the WelTel SMS support intervention as a simple and useful approach to facilitating patient and health care provider communication and engagement. Using low cost interactive text messaging has the potential to serve as an affordable and easy to use conduit to link individuals to health care providers (outreach workers, nurses, case managers) who are equipped in assisting them in navigating the health care system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Duration: May 1, 2011 to April 30, 2013 Patient engagement in care and adherence to medication are critical to achieving the full benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people with HIV infection. A randomized control trial in Kenya, WelTelKenya1, showed that an interactive mobile phone text messaging intervention can improve adherence and viral load [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-whats-new"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>mHealth Pilot for HIV\/AIDS in BC | Pacific Public Health Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"mHealth Pilot for HIV\/AIDS in BC | Pacific Public Health Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Project Duration: May 1, 2011 to April 30, 2013 Patient engagement in care and adherence to medication are critical to achieving the full benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people with HIV infection. A randomized control trial in Kenya, WelTelKenya1, showed that an interactive mobile phone text messaging intervention can improve adherence and viral load [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pacific Public Health Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-08-25T14:29:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kendal-james-1166721-unsplash-1-1024x683.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"foundry\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"foundry\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"foundry\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/67a5108f61aa3e6052ea9657089428f3\"},\"headline\":\"mHealth Pilot for HIV\/AIDS in BC\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-08-25T14:29:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/\"},\"wordCount\":182,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kendal-james-1166721-unsplash-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Blog Posts\",\"What's New\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/\",\"name\":\"mHealth Pilot for HIV\/AIDS in BC | Pacific Public Health Foundation\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kendal-james-1166721-unsplash-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-08-25T14:29:18+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kendal-james-1166721-unsplash-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kendal-james-1166721-unsplash-1.jpg\",\"width\":8192,\"height\":5461},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"mHealth Pilot for HIV\/AIDS in BC\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/\",\"name\":\"Pacific Public Health Foundation\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Pacific Public Health Foundation\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pacific-phf-logo.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pacific-phf-logo.svg\",\"width\":170,\"height\":92,\"caption\":\"Pacific Public Health Foundation\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/67a5108f61aa3e6052ea9657089428f3\",\"name\":\"foundry\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3608335d3f0d6b4b27e5bb644c780c64b00487035e52b23fb77dd6840edd4459?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3608335d3f0d6b4b27e5bb644c780c64b00487035e52b23fb77dd6840edd4459?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"foundry\"},\"description\":\"Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/author\/foundry\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"mHealth Pilot for HIV\/AIDS in BC | Pacific Public Health Foundation","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"mHealth Pilot for HIV\/AIDS in BC | Pacific Public Health Foundation","og_description":"Project Duration: May 1, 2011 to April 30, 2013 Patient engagement in care and adherence to medication are critical to achieving the full benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people with HIV infection. A randomized control trial in Kenya, WelTelKenya1, showed that an interactive mobile phone text messaging intervention can improve adherence and viral load [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/","og_site_name":"Pacific Public Health Foundation","article_published_time":"2014-08-25T14:29:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":683,"url":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kendal-james-1166721-unsplash-1-1024x683.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"foundry","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"foundry","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/"},"author":{"name":"foundry","@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/67a5108f61aa3e6052ea9657089428f3"},"headline":"mHealth Pilot for HIV\/AIDS in BC","datePublished":"2014-08-25T14:29:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/"},"wordCount":182,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kendal-james-1166721-unsplash-1.jpg","articleSection":["Blog Posts","What's New"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/","url":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/","name":"mHealth Pilot for HIV\/AIDS in BC | Pacific Public Health Foundation","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kendal-james-1166721-unsplash-1.jpg","datePublished":"2014-08-25T14:29:18+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kendal-james-1166721-unsplash-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kendal-james-1166721-unsplash-1.jpg","width":8192,"height":5461},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/mhealth-pilot-for-hivaids-in-bc\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"mHealth Pilot for HIV\/AIDS in BC"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/","name":"Pacific Public Health Foundation","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#organization","name":"Pacific Public Health Foundation","url":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pacific-phf-logo.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pacific-phf-logo.svg","width":170,"height":92,"caption":"Pacific Public Health Foundation"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/67a5108f61aa3e6052ea9657089428f3","name":"foundry","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3608335d3f0d6b4b27e5bb644c780c64b00487035e52b23fb77dd6840edd4459?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3608335d3f0d6b4b27e5bb644c780c64b00487035e52b23fb77dd6840edd4459?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"foundry"},"description":"Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum.","url":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/author\/foundry\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}