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Specially tailored mobile phones are programmed with a list of questions aimed at monitoring patients on anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs for HIV/AIDS. During home visits to AIDS sufferers, counsellors ask the questions and immediately text the answers to a database at the University of Cape Town. Doctors and health workers monitor the database and can respond to urgent requests. This system is also used to monitor the number of pills left, and to notify the proper channels when a refill is necessary.