Application of mobile computing to enhance treatment information communication to HIV / AIDS patients
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Date
2012-06
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Kampala International University, College of Computing and Information Technology
Abstract
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.
Description
A project report submitted to college of applied sciences and technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Information
Technology of Kampala International University
Keywords
Mobile computing, Information communication, HIV / AIDS patients