Our aim
Working with Vodacom Lesotho and in partnership with the Ministry of Health, USAID, Elton John AIDS Foundation, ViiV Healthcare & The ELMA Foundation, the Vodafone Foundation launched ‘Mobilising HIV Identification and Treatment’ (MHIT) in Lesotho. The programme aims to increase the number of HIV+ children accessing ART in 3 years.
A key element of the programme is the implementation of Text to Treatment which uses Vodafone M-Pesa, the mobile money payment system, to ensure that all children living with HIV/AIDS can access treatment by supporting their transportation costs to health clinics. The programme also leverages Vodafone’s technologies to increase the number of women accessing prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programmes, which prevents HIV+ mothers passing the HIV virus onto their newborn child.