Table 2.

Themes emerging from the analysis of the focus group session held with 12 mothers living with HIV (participant group 2).

Theme	Indicative quotea
Connectivity	My phone is important to me as it allows me to communicate immediately with people who want to contact me. [Gladys Bhengu, 22 years]
	I use it to get in contact with my family members and people who are living around me, like my neighbors. [Ethyl Zuma, 36 years]
Safety	Public phones are far away from where I live. Cell phones [is] convenient and allows one to get help from others through communication. [Marsha Ntuli, 22 years]
	...to be able to reach people when I have a problem and vice versa. [Gladys Bhengu, 22 years]
	I use it for emergencies...to get help. [Mavis Sithole, 24 years]
Functionality	I put reminders in my phone to help remind me of the times when I must take my medication. So I am on time with my medication. [Ethyl Zuma, 36 years]
Knowledge	Because you first explain everything before taking any information on the cell phone it will be ok. [Wendy Zulu, 28 years]
	As long as the interviewer will explain the study well people won’t mind. [Ayanda Sithole, 31 years]
Privacy and confidentiality	They will think that researchers are taking pictures of HIV-positive people to label them. [Zama Ndwandwe, 33 years]
	Researchers are using the devices to film people and to put them on television. [Ethyl Zuma, 36 years]
	Information will be between the two of us because the phone probably will have a code...I don’t think the data will have a possibility to be lost. [Wendy Zulu, 28 years]

^aAll names are fictitious.