A mobile health-facilitated behavioural intervention for community health workers improves exclusive breastfeeding and early infant HIV diagnosis in India: a cluster randomized trial.
Nishi SuryavanshiAbhay KadamNikhil GupteAsha HegdeSavita KanadeSrilatha SivalenkaV Sampath KumarAmita GuptaRobert C BollingerAnita ShankarJane McKenzie-WhiteVidya MavePublished in: Journal of the International AIDS Society (2021)
The COMBIND intervention was easily integrated into India's existing PMTCT programme and improved early uptake of two PMTCT components that require self-motivated health-seeking behaviour, thus providing preliminary evidence to support COMBIND as a potentially scalable PMTCT strategy. Further study would identify modifications needed to optimize other PMTCT outcomes.