This photo was taken in May 2007 at the Moshupa Secondary School in the village of Moshupa, Botswana during pre-service training. It is the stop sign at the entrance to the 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 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...
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...
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 photo shows a Bulgarian Red Cross Youth volunteer passing out inflated condoms containing health tips for avoiding HIV/AIDS & STI's. The campaign was conducted on World AIDS Day 2011 in the city center of Lovech, Bulgaria.
This photo was taken on October 18th, 2010 at the 1st provincial REDES Conference in Inhambane, Mozambique. REDES, which stands for Raparigas em Desenvolvimento, Educação, e Saúde (or, Girls in Development, Education, and Health), is an...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
This photo was taken during my practicum week in Nicaragua during my Peace Corps training. A group of Peace Corps trainees delivered an HIV/AIDS eduction workshop with a group of 60 navy men at the naval base in Corinto. The image is of me and a...
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,...
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.
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 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 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...
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.