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1. Health and Wellbeing
Cell Phone–Based System Could Fast Facts
Improve HIV/AIDS Drug Tracking Project Principals:
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Ph.D.,
assistant professor of computer science,
New York University
Antiretroviral therapy can be a life-saving treatment for people Mary Ann Hopkins, M.D., assistant
infected with HIV or suffering from AIDS. But such treatment is scarce professor of surgery, NYU
Mekbib Gemeda, associate director,
in Africa, where the disease kills millions each year. Researchers
NYU Institute of Community and
at New York University are working on a cell phone–based drug- Health Research
tracking system aimed at improving the availability and use of Brian A. Levine, M.D., M.S., teaching
HIV/AIDS drugs. assistant, NYU Langone Medical Center
Barbara Rapchak, founder and CEO,
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Leap of Faith Technologies
f the estimated 33 million people worldwide infected with HIV or suffering Eddie Donton, CEO, West Africa
from AIDS, more than two-thirds live in sub-Saharan Africa—which holds only AIDS Foundation
about 12 percent of the world’s population.1 In 2007 alone, an estimated 1.9
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million people in Africa became infected.
http://cater.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/index.php/
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), which combines two to five antiret-
SmartTrack
roviral medications, is widely seen as the most effective treatment option for people
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with HIV/AIDS. While commonplace in developed countries, these life-saving drugs are
Researchers at New York University are
available to only a small percentage of Africans affected by the disease.
teaming up with several partners to
Researchers at New York University (NYU) have identified key barriers to HAART
develop SmartTrack, a cell phone–based
programs in various regions of Africa. Due to poor drug-tracking systems, supply
system designed to easily track the flow
chains for HIV/AIDS medications are often plagued with theft and counterfeiting
and consumption of antiretroviral drugs
problems. And when the drugs do make it through, patients often don’t adhere to the used for treating people infected with HIV
proper dosage regimen. or suffering from AIDS.
The NYU researchers aim to combat both of these problems with a project they
call SmartTrack—a low-cost, cell phone–based system that will make it easier to
gather important patient data and to track the flow and consumption of drugs in
HAART programs.
Microsoft External Research
The Microsoft External Research
Division within Microsoft Research
partners with academia, govern-
ment and industry to advance
computer science, education and
scientific research aimed at helping
address some of the world’s most
urgent and significant social and
technological challenges. Along
with investing cash, software,
hardware and research expertise to
enable ground-breaking projects
worldwide, Microsoft External
Research is committed to provid-
ing the advanced technologies
and services needed to support
every stage of the research process.
Efforts are focused in four research
areas—including Health and Well-
being, which explores technologies
that advance healthcare and help
people make better choices about
their health.
A health worker in Ghana extracts blood to measure the T-cell count of a patient. SmartTrack
enables medical professionals and even patients themselves to remotely access and update a Microsoft External Research
patient’s T-cell history on a mobile phone using a single SMS message. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/
collaboration/