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    Application of mobile computing to enhance treatment information communication to HIV / AIDS patients
    (Kampala International University, College of Computing and Information Technology, 2012-06) Kihangire, John Paul; Muhura, Dedan Njoroge
    Many HTV!All)S support organizations have laboured to provide HP/-infected people with the life prolonging drugs such as ART. However in a nut cell many people mostly in the resource limited settings still lack enough information on how to effectively use them leading to high death rates of patients. Since many people own mobile phones( 67.4% (Uganda bureau of statistics, 2010) there was a need to come up with mechanisms to utilize a mobile phone for monitoring patient’s timely intake of drugs, restocldng from nearby health centres, timely reporting of adverse effects. A system prototype has been developed with the above mentioned functionalities. This can be adopted by ART service providers in Uganda. It was implemented using MySQL, PHP, python application logic script and XML) and hosted to an online web server. However further research should be done to ensure adherence in paediatrics (children) and people who cannot use mobile phones, Securing! encrypting adherence informationl messages to patients and monitoring patients with other diseases apart from HIV!AIDS. It is recommended that Ministry of health should work with telecomnmnication companies to enable registered patients in rural settings send free messages to health centres.