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This article describes a project called Cell-Life, a comprehensive database that includes a patient’s treatment history and lab results with a messaging service that enables counsellors, clinic staff and doctors to communicate using SMS. Visiting clients’ homes, therapeutic counselors scroll through a series of menus to report on side effects, monitor adherence and provide detailed social information. Once every four months, they show up without an appointment to count the client’s pills. They use SMS to send all of this information to a central database, where it can be instantly viewed on a computer screen.