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AIDS, Diabetes, Digestive, Cancer
INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ADVERSE EVENT, LUNG, ALLERGY, AIDS, RECRUITMENT, KIDNEY DISEASES, WEST, ABUSE, DIABETES, BLOOD, HEART, CANCER
Over 4 years of rigorous implementation science research and evaluation in both South Africa and Zimbabwe, 2wT-based telehealth successfully provided quality VMMC follow-up for over 24,000 males, aged ≥15years, in both rural and urban settings [The authors would like to thank the Departments of Health of the Gauteng and North West provinces; implementing partner, Right to Care, for enabling participation of the clinical teams; and the Centre for HIV-AIDS Prevention Studies (CHAPS) study implementation team for their dedication and skills in study recruitment, data management, and data capture. The authors would like to thank the Medic team, specifically Dr Raymond Mugwanya, for their technical skills and invaluable commitment to the success of the project. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number 5R01NR019229 (“Expanding and Scaling Two-way Texting to Reduce Unnecessary Follow-Up and Improve Adverse Event Identification Among Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Clients in the Republic of South Africa”). Grant submission preparation was supported by the University of Washington and its Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research, an NIH-funded program under award number AI027757 that is supported by the following NIH Institutes and Centers: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Investigation Agency, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.Conflicts of Interest: None declared.CONSORT eHealth Checklist.