Web-based Game Helps Teens Manage HIV (posted 7/10)

A Web-based game could help educate teenagers with HIV infection on how to avoid transmitting the virus, a pilot study suggests.  The Web-based game, dubbed +CLICK (positive Click), allows users to virtually navigate through a shopping mall that features lessons on abstinence, condom use and contraception, as well as video clips of other young people with HIV sharing their advice and experiences. Specifically, the video game targets four behaviors, including choosing to abstain from sex, disclosing HIV status to a potential partner, using condoms correctly and consistently, and using an effective method of birth control in addition to condoms. In the new study, the Texas researchers who developed the game tested it out on 32 HIV-positive 13- to 24-year-olds -- having each patient use the program in the waiting room during a routine doctor visit.  For more information click here .

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