This picture was taken on Jan 19, 2012 at a school in Suriname. This was the first session of a 3-day HIV/AIDS education event in the village, held for the Adult Education Program students - about 100 men and women who attend evening classes at...
This picture was taken at a museum in Suriname on Jan 21, 2012. The man speaking is my counterpart and one of the founders of the museum. He helped MC the 3-day HIV/AIDS education event, reaching over 400 people in the area.
This picture was taken on the path to a museum in Suriname on Jan 21, 2012. Several Volunteers came to the village to support a 3-day HIV/AIDS education event, reaching over 400 people in the area. This photo shows a female Volunteer from a...
This photo was taken on May 31st, 2012 in Vanuatu, at a week-long workshop on HIV/AIDS for Ni-Vanuatu Village Health Workers (VHWs). VHWs live and work in the most remote areas of Vanuatu and face many challenges but often receive very little...
I took this photo on May 29th, 2012 in Vanuatu, at a week-long workshop I led for Ni-Vanuatu Village Health Workers. We taught them simple tools and resources they can use to effectively teach their remote communities about HIV and AIDS and to...
I took this photo on May 31st, 2012 in Vanuatu. The photo shows Ni-Vanuatu Village Health Workers learning a string activity which can be used in various ways to illustrate how HIV can be transmitted and the ABC’s of HIV prevention (Abstinence,...
This is a photo from our week-long workshop on HIV/AIDS for Ni-Vanuatu Village Health Workers. In Vanuatu, a highly religious and conservative country, topics such as body parts, sex, risky behaviors and condoms are generally taboo and can be...
During Camp GLOW, we had these Moldovan girls play a game visually demonstrating how HIV is transmitted from person to person. The girls had a lot of fun and learned a lot about protecting themselves and the truth about HIV & AIDS.
This photo was taken on World AIDS Day (1 December 2011) at a march organized to raise awareness about AIDS. The picture shows some 9th grade students holding posters they made encouraging safe sex, dispelling stigmas and unfair stereotypes, and...
The image is of me dressed as a giant condon (condom) with the children of my PC site Zaruma, Ecuador. We were about to march through the streets of town to converge upon the parque central where displays the children had made were out for all to...
This photo is of myself, Ryan Ruggiero, and peer educator, Lusanda, during a life skills training for out of school youth in South Africa. I am explaining information about gender roles to Lusanda, one of our first Stars of Tomorrow -out of school,...
This is a banner from an AIDS awareness festival, one of nine AIDS education and prevention events that a group of Madagascar PCVs organized and ran with the help of the PSI cinemobile during a week-long bicycle tour in the highlands of Madagascar...
This was taken on the first day of our HIV/AIDS workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu on May 27th in Vanuatu. Lindsay, a Volunteer, is wearing one of our special designed t-shirts for this years HIV/AIDS Village Health Worker Workshop.
In 2006 Namibia's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate was close to 20% and rising. Massive efforts were made to increase knowledge and raise awareness of the virus. By 2007 a government survey found that 90% of Namibians had the necessary knowledge about...
July 24th, 2011 - Volunteer Brian Bartley shakes hands with a local football team competing in the North Bank region's first annual Know Your Status Football Tournament. Organized by three environment Volunteers, and one health Volunteer, the Know...
Galilaya is a fishing village located on Lake Kyoga at one of the northern most points in Kayunga District. Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) collaborated with a Peace Corps Volunteer, Katherine Peters to do HIV education in Kayunga...
HIV/AIDS; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
This photo was taken during a girls-empowerment conference (REDES) in Chimoio, Mozambique sometime in July of 2011. One of my female students is demonstrating to other girls in her group how to correctly use a female condom, something that she'd...
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...
This 2007 photo was taken in the Parque de la Independencia of Zaruma in the south of Ecuador, in front of the Santuario de la Virgen del Carmen. I am wearing the giant condom costume and am being embraced by Allison Mang, the town's youth and...
I took this photo at the end of a week-long workshop on HIV/AIDS for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu. Throughout the week we trained VHW's in HIV/AIDS knowledge and in tools and resources they could use for simple, effective awareness and...