With our referral network database now spanning more than 14 000 organisations involved in HIV and AIDS-related work, HIV-911 proudly looks back on 2009 as a year of growth and success.

Our partnership with The Grid means that you can now use your mobile phone to easily find your nearest HIV and AIDS-related service provider, anywhere in South Africa.

All 9 provincial directories for Series 2 of the HIV-911 HIV-related services directory went successfully into circulation across South Africa in 2009.

Active datacapture for Series 3 is in progress and the Gauteng directory is first up.

HIV-911 continues to actively explore mobile interfaces for dissemination of HIV-911 referral information. The mobile pilot (Impilo Health in my Hands) now provides location based referrals to health services in South Africa and a simplified USSD interface (to use the free service call *120*467456# from a mobile phone).

More importantly, 2010 is a year of promise and even more opportunity. 2010 will be the year HIV-911 will see another partnership with Dept of Social Development, USAID and Population Council come to fruition, with the release of Series 1 of the Children Services Directory. The Children Services Directory is a listing of non-profit organisations (NPOs) and governmental organisations that are working in South Africa to address the needs of orphaned and other vulnerable children.

HIV911 strives to make HIV-related support available to all who need it by connecting those with resources and services to people in need. We now offer you multiple access points to HIV911 and we are confident that 2010 will bring many more opportunities to offer you hope and connection.

HIV911 is contactable via our Data Collection and Referral Centre on 0860 HIV 911 or visit our website.

HIV-911 looks forward to a year of expansion, new possibilities and better ways to truly give you hope and connection.

The power is in your pocket!

Now you can use your cellphone to get the info you need to stay safe and live healthily. Here’s how:

For all cellphones

• To find an HIV-related event close to you: Send a blank SMS to 30060 (until 4 December. free to Vodacom users; normal SMS rates for others)
• To see a directory of cellphone services for HIV info and help: Dial *120*923# (20c for 20 seconds)

For more advanced phones

• To learn about HIV and get counselling on Mxit: Go to Tradepost>MXit Mix>My Culture>Red (about 1c to read HIV info & chat to a counsellor)
• To read a book on your cellphone! SMS one of these - EHIV (English), ZHIV (Zulu), SHIV (Sotho) or AHIV (Afrikaans) - to 32907 (R1 for SMS + about 30c to download. find downloaded book under Games or Applications)
• To become an expert on HIV basics: Use the internet on your phone to browse redhiv.mobi (about 30c)
• Vodacom subscribers can log on to live.vodafone.com and visit the Young Africa Live section to read and talk about HIV (free to Vodacom)

Brought to you by the South African National AIDS Council, Cell-Life and HIV-911

www.sanac.org.za www.cell-life.org.za www.hiv911.org.za

We’d like to thank all our partners, funders and friends for all the positive feedback on our new website. We’ll be coallating all your responses soon and putting them up.

In the meantime, we’ve uploaded our latest newsletter here

Also, the World AIDS Day Calendar can be found here

You can read more about the World AIDS Day Calendar and SANAC call to action here

Speak soon!

The HIV-911 team

HIV-911 welcomes you to our new website.

HIV-911 is a national referral network of HIV/AIDS and social service related service providers, covering the whole of South Africa. HIV-911 hosts almost 13 000 organisations involved in HIV/AIDS-related work.

HIV-911 aims to enable everyone all over the country to find out where to get the help they need when face with an HIV/AIDS-related crisis or question.

HIV-911 is a project borne of the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN), based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).

As HIV-911 heads on into its third Series of the Provincial HIV-Related Services Directory, we decided to get bigger, think smarter and enable more people to access and contact us in new ways.

• You can search HIV-911 online
• Call the data collection/referral line on 0860 HIV 911/0860 448 911
• Order provincial directories by calling 031 260 3052. Directories are distributed for free to each member of the referral network, public health facilities and medical practitioners.
• Try our pilot mobile directory by calling *120*impilo# from a mobile phone (Umkhanyakude, KZN only)
• Access the HIV-911 database via the National AIDS Helpline on 0800 012 322
• To add your organisation to the HIV-911 database, please contact Project Director, Debbie Heustice, on [email protected]

Coming soon:

• • finding your nearest HIV/AIDS Service provider on The Grid - SMS 33314 and download instructions will be sent to your mobile phone
  • A mobile directory of Registered NPOs offering Children Services country wide: call *120*kids#
  • A mobile directory of all HIV-related services country wide: call *120*448#

You can now also follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/HIV911

And find us on your favourite social networking site, Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/HIV-911/127796667054

Our new website aims to encourage interaction between you, the user, HIV/AIDS service provider organizations and us. All content posted on our new website has a comments facility, for you to post your thoughts. Please feel free to feedback to us!

The most exciting news for us, though, is our new, aptly-named awesome search functionality. On the homepage, enter your query into the intuitive search bar. Search results will appear below the search bar, separated into Organisation Search and Services Search.

We’d like to hear from you! Let us know what your experiences and thoughts are on our new website, and hey, we can handle criticism just as easily as we can handle compliments! Send all congratulations and commiserations to [email protected]

Keep searching!

The hard-working HIV-911 team