I took this picture during the World AIDS Day march in 2010 in Ecuador. Many children, youth, adults, and local organizations participated in the march. This was one of the signs that the participants made.
I took this picture during the World AIDS Day march in 2010 in Ecuador. Many children, youth, adults, and local organizations participated in the march. This was one of the signs that the participants made.
I took this picture of my youth group in Colimes, Ecuador after the World AIDS Day march on December 1, 2010. All of the youth include in this picture are peer educators who worked with hundreds of youth in their community in HIV prevention and...
This mural painted in front of the health center in a town in Guatemala was part of an art contest that was held on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011. The art contest was among children and a 13 year old boy won the contest. His drawing was painted...
This was the actual handmade butterfly that was passed out to the health center staff in a town in Guatemala on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011. It was a way to promote HIV awareness and the hope of finding a cure in the near future for HIV.
Volunteer Josh Cardenas assists youth in an HIV trivia game at an event that was held on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2012 in the Mwinilunga district of Zambia. The national theme for 2012 World AIDS Day was "Getting to Zero: I am a Youth Making a...
I organized a youth drama camp in the Mwinilunga area of Zambia as one of my health education projects in December 2012. Drama groups from the district competed at a World AIDS Day performance event, and the five winning teams were selected for a...
I organized a youth drama camp in the Mwinilunga area of Zambia as one of my health education projects. Drama groups from the district competed at a World AIDS Day performance event, and the five winning teams were selected for a spot in the camp,...
This photo was taken during the unveiling of an HIV prevention mural painted in 2008 in collaboration with the students from Kongo SS in the Upper East Region of Ghana. This was the culmination of a six week project focused on collaboration between...
This is the mural painting by itself after the completion for World AIDS Day 2011 in a town in Guatemala. This mural was painted in front of the health center to raise HIV awareness for the entire town.
This photo was taken February 11, 2010 on Cameroon's National Youth Day. The students marching are high school students who were members of Club Reglo, or Youth Club, in my post of Banyo, Cameroon. These students were trained as peer educators...
This photo was taken on World AIDS Day 2011 in the city center of Lovech, Bulgaria. I was a PCRV working with Bulgarian Youth Red Cross volunteers. The condoms contain reproductive health tips for avoiding HIV/AIDS & STI's and were distributed to...
A youth promoter in Nicaragua teaches fellow youth about the proper use of a condom to prevent HIV infection. Such lessons were part of an HIV fair during World AIDS Day 2011.
Three youth from a local drama team look on at a local drama competition. The competition was held on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2012 in the Mwinilunga district of Zambia. The national theme for 2012 World AIDS Day was "Getting to Zero: I am a...
This Malagasy child was very enthusiastic about helping us Peace Corps Volunteers celebrate our AIDS festival at the community-based training site in the highlands of Madagascar. The festival was an education and awareness-raising activity held...
The photo is from World AIDS Day 2011 at a primary school in Cambodia. The photo shows a student who has already pinned his HIV/AIDS ribbon and is waiting to listen to a presentation on HIV/AIDS.
This was taken on the second day of our HIV/AIDS workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu on May 28th in Pango Village, Efate, Vanuatu. Village Health Workers came into Efate from many different islands across Vanuatu to learn how to teach...
I took this photo of Ni-Vanuatu Village Health Workers learning a drama they could use in their home communities to simply explain how HIV works in the body and when it becomes AIDS.
This photo was taken in the northern region of Ghana during a two-week long HIV/AIDS education program. Five health Volunteers and three counterparts traveled down the White Volta River doing outreach and testing in over a dozen villages that are...