Maternal health, newborn health, HIV Pregnancy and Childbirth
Conditions
Interventions
The mHealth intervention consisted of twice-weekly informative and stage-based maternal health information text messages sent to women during pregnancy until their child was one year of age. The inter
Sponsors
Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Female
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Over the age of 18 at recruitment 2. Received ANC and PNC services at one the participating ANC/PNC sites during the study period 3. Delivered with a skilled birth attendant at one of two participating delivery sites 4. Have had regular access to a cellular phone
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Younger than 18 years of age 2. Did not give consent to participate 3. Did not fulfil inclusion criteria
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Attendance to antenatal care, collected from clinical ANC records (number of visits during the pregnancy) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Childhood immunizations received, collected from the “road to Health” booklets that each infant receives and where immunization data are recorded, at birth, age 6 weeks, age 10 weeks, age 14 weeks, and age 9 months 2. Postnatal infant HIV testing collected from the delivery site PCR testing database at age 6 weeks 3. Birth outcomes collected from the maternal register database at the delivery site at birth 4. Cost-effectiveness calculated based on MAMA user costs, health care system costs and programmatic costs which were entered in the Lives Saved Tool (LiST), a tool used to model the impact of scaling-up health-related interventions used to reduce maternal, neonatal and child mortality costs collected retrospectively including data from planning of intervention | — |
Countries
South Africa
Outcome results
None listed