iPad HIV game

Study: iPad-based HIV prevention game increased adolescents' knowledge of the disease

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...

iPad game PlayForward aims to prevent HIV infection

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...