The study protocol was published in PLoS One in May 2022.
Recruitment was completed in March 2022.
The first health centers (St Paul and Muela) stopped enrolling VITAL participants in October 2021.
Since May 2021, all VITAL health centers are enrolling participants.
St Paul (control) and Muela (intervention) health centers started enrolling VITAL participants on Oct 14 and 15 2020.
See https://www.vital-lesotho.org/recruitment for the state of recruitment.
On Aug 31 and Sep 01, 2020 health care workers of the clinics Muela and St Paul were trained in using the VITAL App.
VITAL postponed due to COVID-19
Tentatively planned to start in late 2020.
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ePoster presented by Ramona Scherrer at the 23rd AIDS Conference Virtual, 6 to 10 July 2020:
The poster presents the results from a preference assessment among patients attending HIV care in a clinic in Lesotho. Patients are strongly in favor of getting more information on their health directly by phone.
presented July 6 to 10, 2020 at: www.aids2020.org