A mobile health‐facilitated behavioural intervention for community health workers improves exclusive breastfeeding and early infant HIV diagnosis in India: a cluster randomized trial

India’s national AIDS Control Organization implemented World Health Organization’s option B+ HIV prevention of mother‐to‐child transmission (PMTCT) guidelines in 2013. However, scalable strategies to improve uptake of new PMTCT guidelines to reduce new infection rates are needed. This study assessed impact of Mobile Health‐Facilitated Behavioral Intervention on the uptake of PMTCT services.

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