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Passage 5(EDFBG) Using a Mobile Phone to Improve Mother and Child Health People around the world are working to expand the uses for mobile technology in health care．In the world，there are six billion mobile phone users in a population of seven billion people． __1 Africa has widespread adoption. Three or four years ago the penetration(进入；使用)rates were 20 percent or 30 percent，and now they’re getting upwards of 60 percent in some countries． 2 Earlier research has been to look at mobile technologies and HIV and AIDS．And SO we have some great evidence on the effectiveness of mobiles． During the first week of December，2012，more than 4,000 people from 50 countries met for the fourth annual mHealth Summit．It brought together experts from what the organizers call the mHealth ecosystem． In 2011 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton started a public／private partnership called the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action，or MAMA．There are about 800 women a day and about three million babies a year die from pregnancy and childbirth—related causes． 3 Then messages cover pregnancy and the first year of a baby’ s life．These health messages may also be sent to a pregnant woman’s husband and mother in-law． 4 Messages can be text or voice email．You can have a pregnant woman in Bangladesh registered into a system that provides messages that help her know what to do and when to do certain things． Simple text messages can be important sources of information to people without Internet access． 5 They have to be able to read through thousands of entries that come back to them on Google，for example，and then figure out what that information means to them．And that’ s not something that someone in a poor and uneducated kind of situation can do． A．They have no access to the relevant information． B．That way they too can understand what needs to be done． C．Millions of messages about baby care are received every day． D．A lot of work has been done to use mobile techno