Posted on 09/04/2015 8:15:33 PM PDT by markomalley
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending over $200,000 to create a mobile game that will teach young teens in Kenya to use condoms.
The game also seeks to “educate very young adolescents” about HIV and “harmful gender norms.”
“The overall goal of the proposed project is to contribute to reductions in HIV incidence among youth in sub- Saharan Africa,” according to the NIH grant. “The objective of our proposed study is to advance that goal by developing, building and pilot-testing an interactive electronic game for preadolescents that will be informed by socio-behavioral and pedagogical theories, evidence-based practice, and unique formative research on youth sexual culture in sub- Saharan Africa.”
The primary goal of the project is to “design and develop a mobile phone game for young Kenyans ages 11-14 focused on increasing age at sexual debut and condom use at first sex.”
The game will be tested on 60 young teens in western Kenya to see whether they are willing to play the game and to evaluate how much they like it.
Researchers believe the game could reduce unintended pregnancy, “challenge harmful gender norms and HIV stigma, and foster dialogue with parents and guardians.”
The study has cost taxpayers $236,517 so far.
TOO Late, damage is done
I didn’t know Obonzo would need an app to put on a condom. Maybe this expensive app shows you how to pull the condom down over your head when you have very large ears or something.
Who cares about Kenyans? Oh, wait this app is too late to help our sorry asses. But seriously, I wonder how many yutes there have a cellphone to put the app on. And then who the hell googles for a condom app?
The libs are always complaining about rampant hunger in the U.S.A.
I wonder how they feel about this complete waste of money,money that could be feeding the alleged starving people.
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About 50+ years too late for one Kenyan father to have played this game...
Some donor got themselves a nice kickback
Sigmund Freud would have had fun with this one.
Any African wealthy and sophisticated enough to own and operate an iPhone for sure knows to obtain and operate a condom.
Exactly. This was not anything related to a cellphone game or condoms. This was a payoff to an Obama donor or an Obama relative under the guise of "teaching."
When all is said and done, this is what “waging war on global warming” would entail: payola to Dem friends.
The gravy train is coming to an end soon for the Obamanites.
...”challenge harmful gender norms and HIV stigma.”
Sex between male and female is a “harmful gender norm” that needs to be challenged and replaced with all butt- sex, all the time. And HIV should be applauded as a badge of honor, never avoided or stigmatized.
Ok, got it.
Next: NIH to spend millions providing smart phones to every Kenyan child so they can play the condom game
Do Kenyan kids really have smart phones like every kid in the USA does? Doubt it.
What the h*ll is the NIH doing spending money over there anyhow?
A tale I once heard. Who knows if it’s true?
Some western healthcare workers were sent to some villages in an over-populated part of Africa to promote condoms as a contraceptive. They demonstrated how to use condoms by putting them on bamboo sticks. “Do this before you make love to your wives,” they told the men. Some months later the workers returned to the villages to find most of the women pregnant and the villagers in a uproar. When asked if they had used the condoms as instructed, the villagers said they had, and showed the westerners hundreds of bamboo sticks throughout the village, all with condoms on them.
Peace Corpse sent their kids out with movies of how to use condoms; via Howie Mandel’s early skit about putting it on your head, breathing out and blowing it up.
LOL!
Why don’t the buy the kids a copy of the old game Leisure Suit Larry?
reparations backdoor
Maybe they’re Obama phones.
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