My Mobile Wallet: An Intervention to Support Access to Tuberculosis Care and Medication Adherence in Rural Uganda

  • Acronym: My Mobile Wallet
  • Grant Number: R21 TW011657, 4R33HD107985
  • Effective start/end date: June 01st, 2021 May 30th, 2026
  • Funder: US National Institute of Health (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health), NIH/NICHD
  • Budget: $1,011,548
  • Status: On-Going Project
  • Type: Research and Innovation

Overview

Overview: This study develops My Mobile Wallet—a behavioral and economic intervention to support tuberculosis (TB) treatment adherence among 327 TB patients initiating treatment at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda. We will first determine the optimal design and develop the My Mobile Wallet intervention and assess its initial feasibility and acceptability. We will then test the larger-scale feasibility, acceptability, and impact of the intervention on TB treatment adherence as measured with a real-time monitor


Participants

  • Dr. Angella Musiimenta PhD: Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean Faculty of Computing and Informatics - Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Principal Investigator)
  • Dr. Jessica Haberer MD: Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School - Boston. MA and Director of Research at Center for Global Health - Massachusetts General Hospital Boston MA (Co-Investigator)
  • Dr. Sebastian Linnemayr PhD: Senior Economist RAND Corporation - USA (Co-Investigator)

Publications

Angella Musiimenta1,2, PhD; Wilson Tumuhimbise1,2, PhD ; Esther Atukunda3, PhD ; Aaron Mugaba1,2, MBA ; Sebastian Linnemayr4, PhD ; Jessica Haberer5,6, MD . (2023) . Digital Adherence Technologies and Mobile Money Incentives for Management of Tuberculosis Medication Among People Living With Tuberculosis: Mixed Methods Formative Study . JMIR Formative Research, [online] Volume 7(1). Available at: https://formative.jmir.org/2023/1/e45301