Mobile technology has yet not been widely used as a low cost, high-impactway to address the dangerous co-epidemic of HIV and multi-drug resistant TB. We live at a time when mobile devices are changing people's lives around the globe. Text-messaging, which can be received at no cost in South Africa, has the potential to serve as a powerful communication channel for spreading life saving information throughout the country. This idea is being implemented by the iTEACH program and Project Masiluleke in South Africa by tapping the mobile device as a high-impact, low-cost way to broadcast healthcare information encouraging positive actions such as HIV testing, and connect patients to their care providers. Cell phone and SMS technology currently reach over 80% of the population in South Africa. However, more than 30% of the population -- or over 14 million of the poorest people with the highest incidence of HIV have no access to electricity. Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB), a co-epidemic of HIV, is highly contagious and is a leading cause of death in many South African communities. MDR TB patients and their families who live without electricity face severe economic hardships which reduce their ability to adhere to life saving MDR TB treatment programs. iTEACH and the Portable Light Project have collaborated to develop a comprehensive home treatment program. The proposed pilot project will bring together health care information dissemination via text-messages, clean solar energy with a renewable home lighting and cell phone charging system and a comprehensive home-based MDR TB treatment training program in KwaZulu-Natal. Women in local sewing clubs integrate flexible solar kits into a locally produced African cloth fastened to an emergency blanket, making a detachable solar textile lantern. By day the patient uses the blanket to stay warm while exposed to the outdoors. Sunlight charges the unit in three hours, creating 6 watt-hours of energy stored in a rechargeable battery. At night, Portable Light powers a cell phone and provides ten hours of bright white light to facilitate the night time home care treatment established by the iTEACH Program. The next day, the Portable Light blanket is recharged by the patient, who helps to power his or her own treatment, while providing renewable energy and light for family members.