Learning from its experience
in India, ZMQ planned to
take up the mobile games
to other parts of the world
specially the most affected
ones in Africa and South
East Asia in the local languages.
On World AIDS day
- 1st December 2006, Freedom
HIV/AIDS not only celebrated
its first anniversary in
fight against HIV/AIDS using
mobile phone games but also
added a new chapter - 'Africa
Reach Program' with Hivos,
a leading Dutch development
organization, and KPN, the
largest Dutch telecom company,
under the "Star Programme".
The six countries covered
under the Star programme
in Africa are Uganda, Tanzania
and Kenya in Eastern Africa,
and Malawi, Mozambique and
Namibia in Southern Africa,
the regions of high HIV/AIDS
prevalence.
Under the program, ZMQ developed
2 mobile games - AIDS Fighter
Pilot and AIDS Penalty Shoot
Out. Apart from English,
the games have been developed
in local languages - Kiswahili
and Shen.
AIDS Penalty Shoot
Out is a soccer game
based, a popular sport in
Africa. In this game the
player has to save and shoot
penalties. On saving a penalty
the gamer gets random messages
on HIV/AIDS awareness and
prevention, and on scoring
a goal the user receives
message on different modes
of transmission and myths
and misconceptions about
HIV/AIDS. The score of a
gamer also enables to capture
the learning quotient of
the gamer thus helping in
a behavior change.
AIDS Fighter Pilot
is an adventure game for
youth to create HIV/AIDS
awareness. The game is based
on the story of a village
boy - Juma and a village
girl - Wanjiku, who are
peer educators and have
dedicated their lives to
fight HIV/AIDS by spreading
knowledge about HIV/AIDS
in every corner of their
village using their Glider.