Novartis' SMS for Life program, a partnership with Vodafone, IBM, Google, the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Roll Back Malaria, uses SMS, mobile phone and electronic mapping technology to track weekly stock levels of anti-malarial medicines in remote rural communities, eliminating stock-outs in one region by the eighth week and increasing the percentage of health facilities stocked with all 5 anti-malarial medicines from 25 to 75 percent overall.
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