ABSTRACT
The patient’s history, physical examination, laboratory findings and questions to be answered are sent to a network of HIV/AIDS specialists using a discussion forum accessed through the TELEmedicine website. A survey was conducted in 2006 to evaluate clinicians’ perception of the TELEmedicine service. The eSCART content is structured into 13 different modules and uses a problem-based learning approach with clinical cases, tutorials, additional readings and self-assessments. The AIDS Treatment Information Centre at the Infectious Disease Institute of Makerere University in Kampala hosts a call centre that responds to providers’ treatment questions. Partners In Health and Zanmi Lasante launched a community-based HIV treatment programme in Haiti’s impoverished central plateau. It is a web-based medical record system linking remote areas in rural Haiti. The RAFT project permits remote collaboration, case discussion and data sharing over low-bandwidth networks between the Geneva University Hospitals and 10 French-speaking African countries.
