PC World Malawi Mobile

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Co-written by Ken Banks and Josh Nesbit for PC World/IDG News Service, this column describes the early use of Banks’s FrontlineSMS platform at St. Gabriel’s Hospital in Namitete, Malawi, where SMS messages from community health workers — sent in the local Chichewa language — were helping a severely understaffed hospital team triage patients, coordinate transport and monitor HIV/AIDS treatment adherence across a rural catchment of a quarter of a million people.