I took this photo of a World AIDS Day Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV (VCT) promotion banner right outside the Bawku hospital in the Upper East Region of Ghana. I worked with the other Volunteers in the Upper East Region to help make this...
The HIV+ group I worked with in Mpungu Vlei, Namibia, was bold and ready to take risks to eliminate stigma in the village. I designed t-shirts that said 'I'm Positive' on the front and 'about reducing stigma' on the back. Positive and negative...
The photo was taking in Mpepo Village, Zambia. It was during VCT Day (Voluntary Counseling and Testing), June 30 2008. The man's name is Ed and he is one of the volunteer counselor who is a great counterpart that I worked with my two years in the...
This photo was taken at one of the HIV and AIDS Prevention Education Workshops in Asuncion, Paraguay. These workshops were collaborative efforts from HIV and AIDS education professionals from the Ministry of Health and Peace Corps Volunteers....
This photo was taken in Capiata, Paraguay - a community located one hour outside the capitol. Often, it is referred to as a "dormotorio" community, or a place where you sleep, as the majority of the residents commute into the capitol for work. This...
This photo was taken at an HIV and AIDS prevention education workshop in Asuncion, Paraguay. The presenter is a professional educator who works with the National Secretariat of Children and Adolescents and had been working with this particular...
I took this photo during an HIV/AIDS-focused 8 day home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. In the photo, two home-based caregivers are drawing a map of all the HIV/AIDS related resources in their community, such as health posts, NGOs,...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
I took this photo during an 8 day HIV/AIDS focused homebased care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide homebased care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
HIV/AIDS is a major contributor to the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children in Ethiopia. Many of these orphaned children live on the streets in Dessie, Ethiopia, without much support, and chance to live in a home or receive an...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia....
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia....
This photo was taken on Dec. 1, 2006 when the town of Tachina, Ecuador organized and AIDS march. Here a local high-school student trying to stay out of the sun.
Photo taken on Dec. 1, 2006 when the town of Tachina, Ecuador organized a march against HIV/AIDS. These are local students from the Luis Vargas Torres high-school.
This photo was taken inside a classroom at Mashai Primary School, in the remote mountains of Lesotho. It's estimated that 23% of the population of Lesotho is infected with HIV/AIDS. At Mashai Primary School 1/3 of the students are orphans. ...
Hike to a remote village in the mountains near Mokhotlong, Lesotho. Peace Corps volunteers assisted organization Touching Tiny Lives in identifying mothers and children with HIV/AIDS in the most remote areas of Lesotho. Volunteers provided...
This mother was one of the first women in my village to receive PMTC (Preventing Mother to Child Transmission) treatments. She is HIV positive and her baby Ausi Bonolo was born HIV negative. This photo was taken in the remote mountainous Thaba...