Can new technologies help to tackle the health problems of the world’s poorest?...To see a place where gizmos and gadgets seem utterly unequal to dealing with a health challenge, go to KwaZulu-Natal [South Africa]…[where] Zinhle Thabethe…an HIV patient…helped start iTeach, an outreach programme…[that uses] mobile phones to reach reticent sufferers. In co-operation with MTN, a big mobile carrier in South Africa, American academics and several other innovative groups, iTeach has launched Project Masiluleke. Using a form of text messaging similar to SMS, this sends out up to a million short messages a day, encouraging the recipients in their local language to contact the national AIDS hot line…[also refers to Voxiva, Medicall Home, Google, IBM]