Video Game Aims To Teach Young People In Kenya About HIV/AIDS Prevention

A video game in Kenya — called Pamoja Mtaani and launched through a partnership between Warner Bros. Entertainment and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — is teaching young people in the capital of Nairobi about HIV/AIDS risks and prevention strategies, VOA News reports. The game, which was developed and distributed by the private entertainment company Virtual Heroes, simulates real-life situations in which characters find themselves at risk of contracting HIV. The situations are made to represent realistic settings in the city. In order to advance to the next level of the game, players are required to make the best decisions to solve problems their characters face.

During the game, teenagers are given information about HIV/AIDS prevention, with the target age group being teens ages 15 to 19. Brad Wilson of Virtual Heroes said that during the game, each character initially engages in high-risk behavior and then interacts with other characters to “learn that these behaviors they are doing are actually risky” and have “ramifications.” He added that the characters “realistically” change from the beginning of the game to the end and that the developers “are hoping that a lot of that is going to sink in to the youth.” While developing the game, the company consulted with teens in Nairobi to determine what is important to them and what ideas they had for the game. PEPFAR officials now plan to offer the game in more sites in Nairobi and other parts of Kenya (VOA News, 3/3).

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HIV/AIDS Prevention

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIV/AIDS

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a kind of virus which ravages the immune system of human. this term, sometime, we can call AIDS virus.

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a group of symptoms which exists when the immune system becomes weak.

TRANSMISSION MODE

HIV can transmit through 3 main ways on:

1. Unprotected sexual intercourse with person who is HIV positive

2. Through blood infected with HIV via transfusion or sharing sharp materials such as needles or syringes contaminated with blood containing HIV

3. Through pregnant women infected with HIV to her baby with three steps: in the uterus, at the time of birth and during breastfeeding.

HIV can not transmit through public contact in a society, sharing public toilets or bathrooms or swimming pool, insect bite or sting, visit to PLWA or kissing or hand shaking, having meal together or live in the same house.

Prevention:

Be abstinent.

Be faithful with partner.

Use condom regularly during sexual intercourse.

Do not share sharp materials such as needles or syringes with others.

Make blood test before wedding or having sex with your partner.

AIDS TREATMENT

Until present time, no single has scientist found a way to destroy HIV; they can only have a medicine to prolong the life of PLWA (People living with AIDS). HIV does not kill human directly; it just ravages the immune system which makes persons infected with HIV easily get other diseases such as opportunity diseases so in order to cure AIDS is to cure the opportunity diseases. The opportunity diseases which are mostly frequently found in  Tuberculosis, Respiratory manifestation: Pneumocystis Carinii,  Encephalitis, Digestion manifestation, Skin diseases, Ganglion infection

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE

Sexual diseases are kinds of disease which spread through on sexual intercourse without protection. The main sexual diseases are: Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Wart, Herpes, Hepatitis B and C.

Sexual transmitted diseases remains side effects seriously in the future if the person infected with HIV does not get treatment or proper treatment. If you have sexual disease and never had proper treatment before, you are at higher risk to be infected with HIV compared to normal persons during sexual intercourse with the partner HIV positive by not using any protections such as condom. Treatment Therefore, if you have any one of sexual transmitted diseases, to avoid side effects in the future, you should bear in mind that you along with your partners must be hurry to see doctors at health centers, referral hospitals, and other NGOs clinics; this is the most effective method.

Prevention

Be abstinent.

Be faithful with partner.

Use condom regularly during sexual intercourse.

Do not share sharp materials such as needles or syringes with others.

Make blood test before wedding or having sex with your partner.