Using mHealth to improve tuberculosis case identification and treatment initiation in South Africa: Results from a pilot study

• Noriah Maraba ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nmaraba@auruminstitute.org

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3974-5961

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• Christopher J. Hoffmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Violet N. Chihota,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Foundation for Innovative New diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Larry W. Chang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Nazir Ismail,

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Communicable Disease, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Sue Candy,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Communicable Disease, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Edwin Madibogo,

  Roles Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health and Social Development, City of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Marc Katzwinkel,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mobenzi, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gavin J. Churchyard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Advancing Treatment and Care for TB and HIV, South African Medical Research Council Collaborating Center for HIV/TB, Johannesburg, South Africa, London School of Tropical and Hygiene Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Kerrigan McCarthy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, National Institute of Communicable Disease, Johannesburg, South Africa

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