Contributors
Noriah Maraba:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3974-5961
Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SoftwareRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Christopher J. Hoffmann: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Violet N. Chihota: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Larry W. Chang: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Writing – review & editing
Nazir Ismail: Role: ConceptualizationRole: SoftwareRole: Writing – review & editing
Sue Candy: Role: SoftwareRole: Writing – review & editing
Edwin Madibogo: Role: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole: Writing – review & editing
Marc Katzwinkel: Role: SoftwareRole: Writing – review & editing
Gavin J. Churchyard: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Writing – review & editing
Kerrigan McCarthy: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole:
SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Petros Isaakidis: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
3
July
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 7
Electronic Location Identifier: e0199687
Affiliations
[1
]
The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa
[2
]
School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa
[3
]
John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
[4
]
National Institute of Communicable Disease, Johannesburg, South Africa
[5
]
Department of Health and Social Development, City of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South
Africa
[6
]
Mobenzi, Cape Town, South Africa
[7
]
Advancing Treatment and Care for TB and HIV, South African Medical Research Council
Collaborating Center for HIV/TB, Johannesburg, South Africa
[8
]
London School of Tropical and Hygiene Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), SOUTH AFRICA
Author notes
Competing Interests: MK was employed by Mobenzi during the period of the study. There are no patents, products
in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence
to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
[¤]
Current address: Foundation for Innovative New diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-06436
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199687
PMC ID: 6029757
PubMed ID: 29969486
SO-VID: b78d2229-a5dd-4dc3-84f0-ff0d8cbc1979
Copyright © © 2018 Maraba et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 28
February
2018
Date
accepted
: 12
June
2018
Page count
Figures: 1,
Tables: 4,
Pages: 12
Funding
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000061, the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health;
Award ID: 5R21TW009894
Award Recipient
:
Kerrigan McCarthy
Research reported in this publication was supported by the Fogarty International Center
of the National Institutes of Health (5R21TW009894)
https://www.fic.nih.gov/Pages/Default.aspx. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily
represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The funders had
no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation
of the manuscript. KM received funding for this research. M. Katzwinkel is employed
by Mobenzi, South Africa who were contracted and paid as a vendor to develop and maintain
the mHealth application. Mobenzi, South Africa provided support in the form of salary
for author MK, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific
role of this author is articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.
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