Frontline:SMS, one of the more well-known mobile phone-based global health start-ups announced via Twitter this morning that it had scooped up additional funding for 2010. The team looks to be building out its developer capacity in the new year. Here's the Twitter announcement:

"The FrontlineSMS team secures additional 2010 funding to strengthen its developer capacity. More news next month! \o/"

MobiHealthNews had the chance to interview one of FrontlineSMS's partners, Josh Nesbit, executive director and co-founder of SMS:Medic, which use FrontlineSMS's platform, earlier this year at the NIH's mHealth Summit. Nesbit told us at the time his team was excited to be working with a "group at UCLA [that] figured out how to hack a $10 camera phone, slide a blood sample in, shine an LED light, take that MMS and transmit it."

Here's the video interview with Nesbit from November: