Mobile phones are to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. The action will be performed under a new 10 million-dollar scheme, which was announced on Tuesday. This project is to be launched with the help of the leading companies together with the U.S. government. The project is called “Phones-for Health” . The w:software |softwareъъ  used in this project is loaded on to a standard handset developed by Motorola. This will allow people working in the field to report their current health information to the central database. The information will be transmitted with the help of a standard GPRS connector. In areas where this standard is not available, people will be able to use the SMS channel . The new scheme hopes in long-term to be spread from Africa to Asia so to turn its attention towards other diseases like malaria and tuberculosis . This statement was made in Barcelona at the 3GSM World Congress by the partners that are behind the project .
Mobile phones are to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. Health-care workers will be able to report current health data from the field to a central database using their mobile phones, under a project to be launched with the help of leading phone companies and the U.S. government. The US$10 million project, called “Phones-for Health” , was announced on Tuesday at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. The software used in this project is loaded on to a standard handset developed by Motorola. The information will be transmitted with the help of the standard GPRS mobile data communication protocol or, if this is not available, by the ubiquitous SMS . The new scheme hopes in long-term to be spread from Africa to Asia so to turn its attention towards other diseases like malaria and tuberculosis .
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