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Text to Change

file under:
aids, Health and Medicine, hiv, sexual education, sms, sms quiz

operates in:
Uganda

contact:
http://www.texttochange.com/

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.

References / Past Projects

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.