HIV

Pamoja Mtaani (Together in the Hood) is a multi-player game intended to alter the attitudes, behaviors, and risk perceptions around HIV.

In the game Positive or Not, players must determine whether a person is HIV-positive based on a picture and few descriptors. After the player takes a guess, they are told whether or not the person in the picture is HIV-positive. If the person was positive, they tell a story about how they found out. If they were negative, players receive advice about how to stay protected from the infection. This free, online game was developed by MTV Networks on Campus.

Supershagland is an adventure game created for World's AIDS Day that seeks to educate and raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS virus. The game emphasizes the importance of condom use and other safe ways to avoid contracting the disease. Players navigate through the adventure while collecting items that can be used to help prevent and reduce the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus. This game is not currently available.

Developed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse Maze requires players to navigate through a maze to reach a helicopter. While traveling through the maze, players come upon ten true or false questions related to facts about HIV and drugs. If a question is answered incorrectly, the game informs players of the correct choice and gives them the option of trying again. This is an online, free game targeted for teenagers.