page_title: TeachAIDS
section_title: Celebrity partners
hierarchical_section_title: TeachAIDS / Celebrity partners
caption_attribution_description: Amitabh Bachchan donates his voice for the English and Hindi language versions of the TeachAIDS animated software at BR Studios in Mumbai, India. Photo credit: TeachAIDS (TeachAIDS.org)
context_page_description: TeachAids is a nonprofit social enterprise that develops global HIV prevention education technology products, based on an approach invented through research at Stanford University.
  The TeachAids software has been cited as a model health intervention. Since the materials bypass issues of stigma, they allow HIV prevention education to be provided to communities where it has previously not been allowed. In other communities, the tutorials provide the highest learning effects and comfort rates of any tested educational approach.
  The TeachAids products are animated, interactive software tutorials, developed for individual cultures and languages, and incorporating the voices of celebrities from each region. In India, these include national icons such as Amitabh Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Akkineni Nagarjuna and Sudeep Ssanjeev. In Botswana, they include musicians Scar, Zeus, and former President of Botswana, Festus Mogae.
  TeachAids operates globally, with its software in use in more than 80 countries. Its materials are made available for free under a Creative Commons License, funded by sponsorships, grants, and donations.
context_section_description: The TeachAIDS interactive software implements animated avatars of cultural icons to improve pedagogical efficacy. Over time, numerous international actors, musicians, and celebrities have lent their voices and likenesses to the TeachAIDS materials. These include:
  Amitabh Bachchan
  Amol Palekar
  Anu Choudhury
  Anu Prabhakar
  Anushka Shetty
  Jayanthi
  Imran Khan
  Moloya Goswami
  Nagarjuna Akkineni
  Navdeep
  Prashanta Nanda
  Swati Reddy
  Shabana Azmi
  Shruti Haasan
  Siddharth
  Sudeep
  Suhasini Maniratnam
  Suriya
  Vijay Raghavendra
  Zerifa Wahid
  Zeus
  The TeachAIDS advisory board includes film director Mahesh Bhatt, HIV/AIDS treatment pioneer Nimmagadda Prasad, Global Fund for Women founder Anne Firth Murray, and former President of Botswana Festus Mogae. Actress Amala Akkineni is a trustee of TeachAIDS in India.
caption: TeachAIDS character of Amitabh Bachchan (left); Bachchan in 2013 TeachAIDS recording session (right)
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