This photo was taken in Uganda in 2009. It is a photo of a tournament involving 13 rural communities playing a popular game that has been modified to provide factual information about HIV/AIDS. During the tournament there were testaments from...
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...
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...
I took this photo of one of my students at Cape Coast School for the Deaf in Cape Coast, Ghana, working on her entry for the PEPFAR HIV/AIDS calendar contest. The theme of the contest was "My Friend with HIV is still my friend." I was her art...
Joseph Esoun, 12, a student at Cape Coast School for the Deaf in Cape Coast, Ghana, works on his entry for the PEPFAR HIV/AIDS calendar contest. The theme of the contest was "My Friend with HIV is still my friend." He was one of 13 winners in this...
This photo is from our peer educator training sessions, taken in a city in Ukraine on April 14, 2012. My organization is launching a dormitory-based peer education program, recruiting young students to learn about HIV and then design resources and...
This is a photo of our team from Charitable Foundation VIRTUS, standing in front of our mobile ambulance and testing facility. The bus travels throughout the city daily providing services such as free express HIV testing, counseling for commercial...
This picture was taken in
Ukraine on May 21, 2012, at the city-wide remembrance event following the International Candlelight Vigil the night before. It shows myself and my co-worker, Jenya, holding hands over memorial candles in the shape of a...
I took this photo during our Farewell Celebration for our host families in Mpumalanga, South Africa on March 22, 2012, day before I was to be sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Africa. Staring from the back, I was in awe at the...
This photo was taken on May 12, 2012 at a secondary chool in Kenya. On this day, we had a Girls' Empowerment Day, during which we taught the girls various skills including HIV/AIDS prevention (proper condom use), reproductive health, and...
A woman runs towards a trash can to dispose of a "used" condom in a race against fellow villagers. By educating rural Malagasy on HIV/AIDS prevention, Peace Corps Volunteers hope to reduce transmission rates and increase awareness. In 2010,...
This photo was taken during the Northern Luzon Regional HIV/AIDS Training of Trainers. During the condom demonstration, each participant was taught and able to practice correct and consistent condom use. Many participants had never seen a condom...
This photo was taken during the Northern Luzon Regional HIV/AIDS Training of Trainers held in October 2011. After completing the training, the newly trained nursing students echoed the training at a local high school. This is a photo of their...
This photo was taken during Northern Luzon Regional HIV/AIDS Training of Trainers held in October 2011. Pictured are three girls working together to properly apply a condom to a penile model donated from the College of Nursing.
This photo was taken at the end of my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in South Africa. This image is of the four Volunteers who helped make the awareness campaign such a huge success. The "flag" they are...
I captured this precious image at the end of my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in South Africa. These boys pictured are some of the orphans that receive daily meals at my organization. They have all lost...
I took this photo right before my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in Khula Village, South Africa. The children holding these signs are orphans who have lost their parents from HIV/AIDS. Before the event these...
I took this photo at the Dibete AIDS Day Celebration in Dibete, Botswana on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2005. The HIV rate in Dibete is quite high (in one study conducted by the PMTCT Counselor in the area over 45.8% of those tested), as it is on...
This photo was taken of a community home-based care volunteer in Mookane, Botswana on World AIDS Day December 1, 2004. These volunteers visit HIV/AIDS and other ill patients in their home bringing them supplies and friendship.
Children in Botswana gather for a weekly library club at their primary school. Volunteer Harmony Caton spent time with the children, combining art, computer lessons, and HIV education. The students often practiced by typing out phrases and...