Health IT
Partner SMS Service
This system seems like a good starting point, but could also be extended further.
Why not offer a mobile phone service that allows two people to send each others cell phone numbers to an SMS service and receive back the other person's HIV status from a trusted authority to whom this information has been previously made available by the testing facility?
To ensure privacy, this system could be based on a strictly-enforced opt-in consent model, whereby individuals voluntarily sign up (perhaps also by cell phone) at the time they get tested.
To ensure security, the system could require some kind of additional authentication token exchanged by both parties as part of the SMS request and/or require (near-)simultaneous receipt of both messages, etc.
I would think that at least some portion of the population would find value in this type of system.
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