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SET (Sex-Ed Text) is the fast, easy, anonymous way to get answers to everything you wanted to know about sex, but never asked.

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SET is sposored by Child Family Services Philippines with human resources help from Peace Corps Philippines.

Mission

Our mission is to provide mobile phone based education to people in Africa, who lack the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS related topics.

Concept

“Don’t guess the answers, learn the truth about AIDS!”

With the Text to Change concept we offer an interactive Mobile SMS Quiz with (general) knowledge questions regarding HIV/AIDS linked with a rewarding system (incentive).
By means of this edutainment and this interactive way of communicating, we tend to reach out to millions of people in Africa and around the world in order to spread the message of HIV/AIDS and make it a subject of discussion.

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Text to Change (TTC) is a non profit organisation which is devoted to improve HIV/AIDS education in regions in the world that are in need of help, concentrating on sub-Saharan Africa.

Sub- Saharan Africa remains the worst affected region of the world and is home to almost 64% of all people living with HIV. A major problem current prevention campaigns are facing is how to reach the people who are at greatest risk. However, mobile telephony is booming. The number of mobile users is still growing rapidly, especially in those regions where usage was previously limited. Therefore, we genuinely believe that mobile telephony can make a sustainable contribution to fight HIV/AIDS.

More on Text to Change at AllAfrica.com

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Learning About Living is a project by One World UK, Nigerian NGOs, the MTN Foundation, and the Nigerian Department of Education using computers and mobile phones to teach Nigerian teenagers about sexuality and HIV/AIDS prevention.

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From LearningAboutLiving.com

Learning about Living, the electronic version of FLHE, is based on the Nigerian Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education (FLHE) curriculum. The program is managed by One World UK and is developed by Butterfly Works, in close collaboration with Action Health Incorporated, NERDC, Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Health, Education as a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) and Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI); with input from young people, school teachers and youth workers in Nigeria.

FLHE Curriculum was developed by the NERDC as the National Agency for Curriculum development in the education sector in Nigeria in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education, Federal Ministry of Education and Action Health Incorporated.

Zumbido allowed its 40 test users of diverse backgrounds to communicate about the daily challenges they face living with HIV/AIDS. Unlike other hotline or support mobile phone services, where a user calls one person for help, Zumbido functioned as a network, with each text message sent to every member of the support group.

Zumbido -- "buzz" in Spanish -- provided its 40 participants with mobile phones and unlimited text messages. The large group was broken up into four smaller groups of 10. Each group had a mix of different types of people from urban and rural locations, all from the Mexican state of Jalisco.

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More about Zumbido on the MobileActive.org blog.