For Africa, the race against AIDS is a marathon.

To this end, Nigeria’s largest GSM telecoms operator, MTN Nigeria has raised the stakes for it's 4th Lagos International Half Marathon event on December 2nd, with an innovative online quiz competition.

The popular competition was designed to educate the populace about the yearly event and to create awareness of the race and its fight against HIV/AIDS pandemic ravaging the continent of Africa, and indeed the whole world.

The quiz, which has been running on http://www.mtnonline.com/marathon for about nine weeks now, allow subscribers to text their answers with the word 'quiz' before a space, and then the answer to a dedicated short code, 32052 weekly, with each text costing 30 Nigerian naira.

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