Microbiology

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

Food Detectives is a free, online game designed to educate players about the bacteria that lives on food. Players can learn how to properly cook and handle food so as to avoid ingesting any bacteria. This game was developed by New Mexico State University Media Productions.

Developed by the American Museum of Natural History, Infection Detection Protection Games are designed to educate children about the dangers of bacteria in food. Players of this free, online collection of games can learn about properly handling and storing food to keep it as safe and bacteria free as possible.

In the free, online game Killer Flu, players are taught about seasonal and pandemic flu and how those differ from the influenza virus.

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.

In the free, online game Quarantine, players enter the future during a time in which human societies have been threatened by an outbreak of an infectious respiratory disease. The goal is to consider all implications of the virus and respond to it before more lives are lost. Players can strategize and work together to come up with efficient and plausible ways to save humanity.

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.