Yale Gets $4 Million to Develop HIV Prevention Video Game

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 9, 2010 - 9:20am.

New Haven, Conn. - Yale University has received a $3.9 million grant to develop a video game designed to teach young people how to avoid being infected with HIV, GamePolitics reported.

The research grant was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and will be paid out over five years to fund work by Yale School of Medicine assistant professor Dr. Lynn Fiellin.

The "Retro-Warriors" game will be developed with input from adolescents as well as experts in "positive youth development, social cognitive therapy, artificial intelligence development and commercial game design."

The game's efficacy will also be tested in an actual clinical trial.

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