Feasibility of a short message service (SMS) intervention to deliver tuberculosis testing results in peri-urban and rural Uganda

Pre-treatment loss to follow-up is common for patients diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in high-burden countries. Delivering test results by Short-Messaging-Service (SMS) is increasingly being considered as a solution, but there is limited information about its feasibility as a public health tool in low resourced settings.We sought to assess the feasibility of utilizing SMS technology to deliver TB test results during routine TB diagnostic...