I took this photo in December of 2012 at a high school in Cameroon. The Health Club and Girls Empowerment Club partnered together to hold a series of events for the school population to commemorate World AIDS Day. The most popular part was the...
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.
HIV/AIDS; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
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...
I took this picture on May 18th, 2012 in Ukraine. May 18th is Day of Remembrance for People Who Have Died of AIDS, the local social service center arranged for a memorial in support of those living with HIV and those who have passed away. The photo...
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...
Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); International Women's Day
The women of the Gulmance ethnic group in Burkina Faso proudly showcase their traditional wares for International Women's Day. This holiday, held annually on March 8th, highlights the achievements and contributions of women. The women in the...
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 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...
This was taken on the fourth day of our HIV/AIDS workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu on May 30th 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 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.
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...
This photo was taken during a World Aids Day observance in Lovech, Bulgaria in 2011. Youth volunteers from the Bulgarian Red Cross spent the afternoon passing out brochures, condoms, etc. in the Lovech city center. The event culminated with the...
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 during a week-long workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu. The purposes of the workshop were to provide Village Health Workers (who work in very remote areas) with education on HIV/AIDS and to train them in tools and...
This was taken on the third day of our HIV/AIDS workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu on May 29th in Pango Village, Efate, Vanuatu. Mi Li, a Volunteer, is going over some of the HIV/AIDS posters to a Village Health Worker after one of the...
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.
I took this photo during the Makira Island Youth HIV/AIDS workshop on July 6th, 2011, on Makira Island, Vanuatu. It was a one-day workshop focusing on teaching the youth of the island about HIV/AIDS. The workshop was broken up into four sections...
This photo was taken after the set up was complete for World AIDS Day 2011 at the Main House of Health in Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan. The photo shows a Peace Corps volunteer with educational material to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS.