Airtel
Malawi and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), have
concluded plans to assist people living with HIV and AIDS in the country to
access and share information about their medication use via their mobile
phones, ITRealms
reports.
This
is coming after the Malawian telecommunications company signed a Memorandum of
Understanding, (MoU) with UNAIDS recently.
Managing
Director, Airtel Malawi, Heiko Schlittke, said the telco had made available a
toll free number which will be used for information dissemination adding that
mobile devices can be used as a tool to assess HIV and AIDS information.
"This
mobile phone application will escalate the power of mobile technology in a bid
to help reverse the HIV and AIDS crisis in Malawi by reaching out as many
infected people as possible," said Schittke.
The
UNAIDS country director for Malawi, Amakobe Sande, said the new mobile based platform
would assist people affected and infected with the virus to access information
about supplies of medication across the country apart from health tips among
other things.
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