HIV prevention

By  Dave Muoio 02:39 pm July 26, 2018
Proteus Digital Health’ pitch to track adherence using sensor-equipped pills has found another audience in the HIV prevention community. Among the featured data presented at this week’s International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam was a trial that outfitted Gilead Sciences’ preventive HIV drug Truvada (tenofovir/emtricitabine) with the tracking technology. Here, researchers found that the sensor-...
By  Aditi Pai 08:04 am July 29, 2014
Children who played iPad-based HIV prevention game PlayForward: Elm City Stories knew more about HIV risk than those that played other video games, according to an oral abstract on a randomized control trial of 198 adolescents presented at the AIDS conference this week. The mean age of children in this trial was 13. The NIH-funded video game was developed by Yale University Associate Research...
By  Aditi Pai 04:17 am June 27, 2013
In 2009, 39 percent of new HIV infections were among individuals aged 13 to 29, which was a 21 percent increase since 2006, according to Associate Research Scientist Dr. Kim Hieftje. In her talk at Games for Health in Boston this week Hieftje discussed her new HIV prevention iPad game, PlayForward: Elm City Stories, which tests kids in socially compromising simulations to see if her game affects...