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What games are you playing?

May 24, 2011 • 3 comments • By Michele Clark, AIDS.gov Managing Director
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Co-authored by Jeremy Vanderlan, AIDS.gov Technical Deputy

Games present opportunities to use technology to address public health problems by building on the emergent experience of gaming and the peer influence that social games present. To further our understanding of the role games can and do play to improve health outcomes, we attended the 7th Annual Games for Health Conference. We joined hundreds of game developers, health professionals, and researchers from across the country and were encouraged by what we heard in the HIV/AIDS space, and beyond.…

Games for Health 2010

July 27, 2010 • 3 comments • By Michelle Samplin-Salgado, New Media Strategist, AIDS.gov
Games for Health 2010

We attended the Games for Health 2010 conference in Boston, Massachusetts to learn more about how video games and virtual worlds are being used to increase physical activity, train health care providers, and advocate HIV/AIDS information and prevention methods among youth. Now in its 6th year, the three-day conference was developed in partnership with the…

I Know. I Took The Test: Stories from Second Life

June 18, 2009 • 4 comments • By Michelle Samplin-Salgado, New Media Strategist, AIDS.gov

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ena Ball and Michelle Samplin-Salgado in Second Life

Interview of Jena Ball We’ve shared HIV testing story intiatives from the Southern AIDS Living Quilt, POZ magazine, and the National Association of People with AIDS leading up to National HIV Testing Day. Today’s post will take us “in world” to some virtual testing day story initiatives happening in Karuna , the National Library of…

World AIDS Day 2008: The Power of YOU

December 9, 2008 • 14 comments • By AIDS.gov

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December 1 marked the 20th annual observance of World AIDS Day . At AIDS.gov, we used several new media tools to commemorate this day. We invited you to blog, to upload photos of yourself wearing a red ribbon to social network sites, and to join us in the virtual world of Second Life. But today’s…

World AIDS Day in Second Life

November 11, 2008 • 8 comments • By AIDS.gov

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World AIDS Day Second Life Poster

World AIDS Day (December 1) is less than a month away! One of our many World AIDS Day activities will be our participation in a Second Life (SL) 2008 World AIDS Day event. As we mentioned in a previous post about SL, virtual worlds can be an effective way to reach people with HIV resources…

Second Life (Part 2 of “We Are Living in a Virtual World”)

July 1, 2008 • 9 comments • By AIDS.gov
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This week we build on our June 10 post about virtual worlds and focus on the well-known site, Second Life . To better understand how Second Life can help share HIV information and provide support to those who are HIV-positive, we continued our conversation with our colleagues from the NIH-funded Health Info Island, Lori Bell…

We Are Living in a Virtual World: Part 1

June 10, 2008 • 3 comments • By AIDS.gov
Screen shot of HealthInfo Island on Second Life

HealthInfo Island on Second Life When the AIDS.gov team first started hearing about virtual worlds, we were intrigued–and a little confused. Terms like “avatar ” and “in-world meetings” were unfamiliar. Places like Second Life , Whyville , Club Penguin , and Habbo seemed mysterious. NIH, CDC, and NASA have been Federal pioneers in virtual space….