Feasibility of using smartphones by village health workers for pregnancy registration and effectiveness of mobile phone text messages on reduction of homebirths in rural Uganda

• Gershim Asiki ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gershim@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Council, Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9966-1153

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• Robert Newton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Council, Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom

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• Leonard Kibirige,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Council, Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Anatoli Kamali,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Council, Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Lena Marions,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Lars Smedman

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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