Cell-Life, in partnership with SANAC and other organisations, has created a range of services for World AIDS Day 2009.

With HIV you need the right info to help you understand how to avoid 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 (free to Vodacom users; normal SMS rates for others)

See a directory of services for HIV info and help:

• dial *120*923# (20c for 20 seconds)

For fancy phones

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)

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)
  

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 (from 1 December. Free to Vodacom)