1 3 4 HIV prevention in this group may be the highest impact intervention in developing countries.
What is the evidence that telephones in general, and mobile phones in particular, can be effective as a healthcare intervention in developing countries?
If the next pandemic occurs in a few years, vaccines and antiviral agents, particularly neuraminidase inhibitors, may not be available as a main intervention in developing countries.
The evidence on the cost-effectiveness of ART from Africa, though still meagre, suggest that ART is a cost effective intervention in developing countries [ 4- 6].
This paper looks at evidence to support or refute the idea that fixed and mobile telephones is, or could be, an effective healthcare intervention in developing countries.
There is thus no justification for initiating neonatal vitamin A supplementation as a public health intervention in developing countries for reducing infant mortality and morbidity.
Evidence can be found to both support and refute the proposition that fixed and mobile telephones is, or could be, an effective healthcare intervention in developing countries.
Use of mobile telephones as a healthcare intervention in developing countries has tremendous, but as yet untapped, potential due to technical as well as financial and regulatory barriers.
As a general rule, an attractive intervention in developing countries is one in which the cost per DALY averted is under US$1500, and a highly attractive intervention is one with a cost per DALY of under US$255 [ 45].
Previous evidence for these links mostly came from research in developed countries, and interventions in developing countries were designed with those findings in mind.
However, the efficacy of such interventions in developing countries is less clear and data from interventional studies in such countries are limited.
