Find your World AIDS Day event here!

Download the World AIDS Day Key Messages Booklet

If you are experiencing any difficulties in adding your event, please email [email protected] or call 0860 HIV 911/0860 448 911 to have your event added by our team

We can stop AIDS, and we can live with it – but you need the right information to help understand how to prevent getting it, how to manage it, and how to help others cope.

Now all this is available in your pocket – on your cellphone!

For all cellphones

• Get updated about HIV on World AIDS Day, 1 December 2009: send a please-call-me to 079 706 4014 (free!)
• Find a World AIDS Day event close to you: send a blank SMS to 30060 (from 16 November. Free to Vodacom subscribers; normal SMS rates for other networks)
• Read about all the ways you can use your cellphone to get HIV info and help: dial *120*923# (20 cents for 20 seconds)

For fancy phones

• Get updated about HIV on World AIDS Day, 1 December 2009: send a please-call-me to 079 706 4014 (about 1c to read HIV content and have a chat with a counsellor)
• Learn about HIV and get counselling on MXit: go to Tradepost>MXit Mix>My Culture>Red (from 16 November. Free to Vodacom subscribers; normal SMS rates for other networks)
• Learn all you need to know from a book on your cellphone! SMS one of the following - EHIV (English), ZHIV (Zulu), SHIV (Sotho) or AHIV (Afrikaans) - to 32907 (R1 for SMS + standard data charge of about 30c to download) (find downloaded book under Games or Applications)
• Become an expert on HIV basics: use the internet on your phone to browse redhiv.mobi (R2/MB)
• Vodacom subscribers can log on to live.vodafone.com and visit the Young Africa Live section to read and talk about HIV (from 1 December. Free for Vodacom) (from 1 December. Free for Vodacom)