Can telemedicine initiative be an effective intervention strategy for improving treatment compliance for pediatric HIV patients: Evidences on costs and improvement in treatment compliance from Maharashtra, India

• Sarit Kumar Rout ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sarit.kumar@phfi.org

  Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0831-789X

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• Yashwant R. Gabhale,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Pediatric Centre of Excellence for HIV Care, Department of Pediatrics, LTM Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India

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• Ambarish Dutta,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

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• Sudha Balakrishnan,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation UNICEF India, New Delhi, India

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• Mamatha M. Lala,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Pediatric Centre of Excellence for HIV Care, Department of Pediatrics, LTM Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India

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• Maninder Singh Setia,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Karanam Consultancy, Mumbai, India

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• Khanindra Bhuyan,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation UNICEF state office, Maharashtra, India

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• Mamta V. Manglani

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Pediatric Centre of Excellence for HIV Care, Department of Pediatrics, LTM Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India

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