WhatsApp in Kenya: real time messaging about HIV
Key Correspondents - "What’s the best way for young people to talk about HIV in an urban slum in Kenya? For Maxfacta, an organisation working in an informal settlement in Mathare, it is social media. Over 250 young people are part of a WhatsApp group, using it as a platform (accessed on mobile phones) to discuss sexual and reproductive health issues, including HIV.
(...) Brian Ndungu, a member and beneficiary of Maxfacta, captured the critical role of social media among young people in a presentation during a four-day regional Link Up meeting in Nairobi last week." (Photo: Young people gather for a condom demonstration in Kampala, Uganda | © Gemma Taylor for International HIV/AIDS Alliance)