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Release Date 1 Dec 2005

Developer ZMQ

Project Lead Dr. Subhi Quraishi

Press Coverage

http://freedomhivaids.in/Awards.htm

Press Release URL
http://freedomhivaids.in/Press.htm

Full Description

Safety Cricket - The game is based on a village cricket match between Demons XI and Safety XI. Demons XI have set up a target score. Safety XI needs to chase the runs in 10 overs (60 balls) and 300 seconds with 10 players in hand. Balls appear in different rows in form of safety symbols like Condoms, Faithful Partner, HIV Information and AIDS Red Ribbon. Runs are scored for collecting them. At the same time, Safety XI needs to protect themselves from bowls like Googlies, Yorkers and Doosras; which appears in form of Unsafe Sex, Infected Blood Transfusion, HIV Virus, Infected Syringe and Company of bad friends. Different HIV/AIDS awareness and safety messages are displayed on scoring runs. On striking negative objects, messages are displayed how HIV is transmitted.



Purpose

Freedom HIV/AIDS has been specially designed to combat the dreadful disease - HIV/AIDS, through Information and Communication Technology (ICTs). Using its core competency, ZMQ has successfully used technology to combat HIV/AIDS. Freedom HIV/AIDS has effectively been able to reach out to millions of people in the world using its wide variety of technologies - from solutions Internet based community systems, Intranet based closed net systems, stand-alone computer programs to compact solutions hand-held & mobile devices. The solutions have catered various target audiences like school children, youth, adults, women, corporate workers, cell phone users, sex workers, mobile workers, migrant labour etc.

Metrics
 How are you measuring results?
 Included a beack0end monitoring system to measure the performance and scores

What outcomes have been measured?
 Condcuted workshops to see the co-efficent of learning whihc increased from 0.31 to 0.67

Non-Profit involved: yes


Funding Sources: Self and Part Support

Sponsors/In-kind donations: US$ 50,000

Budget
Overall: 200,000
Secured: 50000

Where you can play this game India. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

Contacts
General Sabina, sabina@zmq.in
Press Hemant, hemant@zmq.in

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