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Mobile phones are being harnessed to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa under a new $US10 million ($A13 million) scheme announced with the backing of leading companies and the US government. The “Phones for Health” project will use software loaded on to a standard Motorola handset to allow care workers in the field to enter critical health information into a central database in real time. It will be transmitted using a standard GPRS mobile connection or, where this is not available, via an SMS channel.