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Daily Monitor Reports on Success, Expansion of Pilot Study Using Health Text Messages

July 16, 2009

The Daily Monitor reviews the success of the recent 10-day "Texting4Health" pilot study in Uganda that used cell phones to "gauge the basic health knowledge" of subscribers to the MTN network. According to the newspaper, the study, which was funded by the U.N. and the Ministry of Health, plans to expand into additional networks after presenting data from the pilot study at an upcoming meeting in Geneva (Richards, 7/16).

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