Strengthening evidence for text-based telehealth in post-operative care: A pragmatic study of the reach and effectiveness of two-way, text-based follow-up after voluntary medical male circumcision in South Africa

• Caryl Feldacker ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cfeld@uw.edu

  Affiliation International Training and Education Center for Health, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8152-6754

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• Isabella Fabens,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Training and Education Center for Health, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8135-9965

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• Tracy Qi Dong,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6769-608X

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• Khumbulani Moyo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Right to Care, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Calsile Makhele,

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

  Affiliation Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Motshana Phohole,

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

  Affiliation Right to Care, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Nelson Igaba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Right to Care, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Sizwe Hlongwane,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Right to Care, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Jacqueline Pienaar,

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

  Affiliation Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Maria Sardini,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Felex Ndebele,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Hannock Tweya,

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

  Affiliation International Training and Education Center for Health, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8247-1273

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• Marrianne Holec,

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

  Affiliation International Training and Education Center for Health, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Evelyn Waweru,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Medic, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4599-8973

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• Geoffrey Setswe

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

  Affiliations Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Health Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

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