Teens turn to text messages for AIDS advice in Zambia


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  • Tuesday, 02 Dec 2014

REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE: A Zambian HIV counselor looking at phone text messages coming up on the U-report platform for HIV and AIDS awareness at a call centre in Lusaka. The U-Report is a youth-centered programme created by the Zambia National AIDS Council with the support of UNICEF to provide confidential, free of charge, individualised and interactive counseling services on HIV and AIDS.

LUSAKA: The questions teenagers ask about HIV are brutally honest, anonymous — and sent in 160 characters or less over mobile phone text messages. 

At U-Report, a Zambian HIV advice organisation, thousands of bite-sized questions come through every day. 

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