Year: 2011

The latest news from our team, partners, and supporters.

DECEMBER 31, 2011 | for HIV/AIDS

Tibetan Health Minister promotes TeachAids tutorials on television

Upon request from Dr. Tsering Wangchuk, the Minister of Health for the Central Tibetan Administration (Tibetan Government in Exile, located in India), the English and Hindi TeachAids tutorials were aired twice on a popular Tibetan cable television station, and posted on TibetOnlineTV. The Tibetan Department of Health initiates and implements public health and education campaigns that advocate for healthier...

DECEMBER 29, 2011 | for HIV/AIDS

TeachAids shown as part of “Getting to Zero” campaign in Lagos, Nigeria

Aligned with the United Nation’s 2011 World AIDS Day campaign, HACEY’s Health Initiative organized an advocacy program on the theme “Getting to zero – The role we play”. The goal behind the campaign is to have zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, and zero AIDS-related deaths by 2015. As part of the campaign efforts, HACEY...

DECEMBER 27, 2011 | for HIV/AIDS

TeachAids used to educate rickshaw pullers in Uttar Pradesh, India

With the support of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, The Dove Foundation used the TeachAids software to educate young bicycle rickshaw pullers in Uttar Pradesh, home to more than 160 million people. Through Project Aarambh and their Youth Education Program, the local NGO used TeachAids as part of their knowledge building workshops to further understanding...

DECEMBER 20, 2011 | for HIV/AIDS

NGO uses car battery to power TeachAids software in areas with no electricity

A Better Education Club (ABE) uses the Swahili TeachAids software to educate youth in villages across Bungule, Rukanga, Jora, Kiteghe, and Makwasinyi, inhabited primarily by the Taita tribe. Serving five primary schools and one secondary school, ABE used the TeachAids materials to educate 500+ primary school students and an additional 325 secondary school students. With no...

DECEMBER 7, 2011 | for HIV/AIDS

TEDxWomen invites TeachAids founder and CEO to speak on World AIDS Day

Following last year’s inaugural TEDWomen conference, with speakers including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, media mogul Ted Turner, and Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, The Paley Center for Media continued the discourse through a bi-coastal TEDxWomen conference on December 1st, World AIDS Day. “The conference will capture a striking moment in our history, when women and girls...

DECEMBER 1, 2011 | for HIV/AIDS

TeachAids Launches New Animations – A First in Africa

In commemoration of World AIDS Day 2011, we are pleased to announce the launch of our newest production version of the TeachAids HIV prevention software for Botswana – a first in all of Africa. The animations, available in both English and Setswana, feature the voices of cultural icons including Game ‘Zeus’ Bantsi, Oratile ‘Jazzelle’ Kebakile, Thato...

NOVEMBER 30, 2011 | for HIV/AIDS

TeachAids and StumbleUpon partner for World AIDS Day

TeachAids and StumbleUpon have partnered together to promote HIV and AIDS education on December 1, 2011. StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that recommends the best web and mobile content for each user. Stumblers interested in AIDS education topics will get the chance to “stumble upon” a short quiz to test their knowledge about HIV and AIDS...

NOVEMBER 29, 2011 | for HIV/AIDS

Three TV stations -- MAA TV, Doordarshan, and NTV -- to air TeachAids animations in India on World AIDS Day

This World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011, the TeachAids Telugu animations will be televised on Star Maa (formerly MAA TV), Doordarshan Saptagiri, and NTV to millions of viewers in India and abroad. On the MAA TV broadcast, TeachAids Ambassador, actress and social activist, Amala Akkineni, will participate in a special program in discussion with an Indian Administrative...

NOVEMBER 28, 2011 | for HIV/AIDS

Barclays Bank of Botswana awards $34,000 to TeachAids

Barclays Bank of Botswana awarded $34,000 in grant funding to TeachAids in support of its educational and outreach programs. The funds were used to develop HIV prevention materials for children and youth of Botswana. Barclays Bank joined other TeachAids project partners including the Botswana Ministry of Education, UNICEF, Yahoo!, among others to support the localization and...

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 | for HIV/AIDS

San Francisco AIDS Foundation selects TeachAids as 2011 grant recipient

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation recently selected TeachAids as a 2011 HIV/AIDS Community Grant recipient. Established in 1982 amidst the burgeoning HIV pandemic in San Francisco, the foundation has worked vigilantly over the last thirty years to confront HIV in vulnerable communities through advocacy, education, and treatment services. In order to reduce the number of...

AUGUST 23, 2011 | for HIV/AIDS

Andhra Pradesh government to distribute Telugu and English HIV software featuring Indian film stars

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability and distribution of the newest round of TeachAids HIV and AIDS prevention software for India, featuring the voices and animated likenesses of film stars Shabana Azmi, Nagarjuna Akkineni, Shruti Haasan, Anushka Shetty, Navdeep Pallapollu and Swati. “When I first learned about this research-driven approach, it was clear that...