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    • Fun with Female Condoms

    • Fun with Female Condoms

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken December 1, 2011 in my village in Burkina Faso. We celebrated World AIDS day by giving a village-wide awareness campaign and condom demonstrations. Surprisingly, one of the volunteers for practicing with the female condom was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Junior

    • Junior

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo in June 2012 at La Ressource Combined school in St. Lucia. After seeing the HIV/AIDS awareness pin that I keep on my bag, a couple of grade 5 boys were interested in what it stood for. I came to find out that they knew very little...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What it Means

    • What it Means

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A student at a school in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Eastern Caribbean) writes out the definition of HIV/AIDS at an educational seminar in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention facilitated by Volunteers Katie and Sheena.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • MYTH

    • MYTH

    • HIV/AIDS

    • During an HIV/AIDS education workshop facilitated by PCVs in conjunction with the House of Hope Society in Kingstown, St. Vincent (Eastern Caribbean), students examined myths and facts about the spread of HIV/AIDS. In this photo, the student holds...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Blood Transfusion

    • Blood Transfusion

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Sheena facilitates an interactive learning session with primary school students at a school in St. Vincent (Eastern Caribbean) about the myths and facts about HIV/AIDS transmission. In this photo she holds up the card reading...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • MYTH

    • MYTH

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken during an educational program for primary school students about the myths and facts of HIV transmission. Peace Corps Volunteers and staff at the House of Hope state possible forms of HIV transmission and the students hold up...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Myths and Facts

    • Myths and Facts

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Sixty students in Grade 4 at a school in St. Vincent participate in a Myths and Facts activity designed to teach different ways through which HIV/AIDS is transmitted. The HIV/AIDS awareness/education program is facilitated by Volunteers and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kasempa's Clinic

    • Kasempa's Clinic

    • HIV/AIDS

    • My husband took this photo on my last day of my Crisis Corps assignment, on March 28, 2005, in the site clinic in Zambia. I was standing in my shared office, which was served as a base for incorporating an HIV prevention component into CCF programs...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Education for a AIDs-Free Generation

    • Education for a AIDs-Free Generation

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken inside a classroom at Mashai Primary School, in the remote mountains of Lesotho. It's estimated that 23% of the population of Lesotho is infected with HIV/AIDS. At Mashai Primary School 1/3 of the students are orphans. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waiting in Wembezi on World AIDS Day 2011

    • Waiting in Wembezi on World AIDS Day 2011

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Waiting for the start of World AIDS Day training in a township in South Africa are members of the Christian Church of Africa, whose Archbishop was the first to welcome PLWHAs into churches in his diocese. Also depicted is Volunteer Mary Pat...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What Stigma in the Community Looks Like

    • What Stigma in the Community Looks Like

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A male caregiver and youth leader demonstrate what 'stigma in the community' looks like in a role play that was part of a two day Stigma Symposium held in South Africa in November, 2011. Here the older man helps his young friend while community...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Medical Ritual

    • A Medical Ritual

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A woman infected with HIV takes her TB medicine in the presence of a home-based worker on June 16, 2011, in Mangata, South Africa. To ensure on going treatment of a patient to slow the spread of TB, meds must be taken with a health worker present.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Remote HIV Outreach

    • Remote HIV Outreach

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Hike to a remote village in the mountains near Mokhotlong, Lesotho. Peace Corps volunteers assisted organization Touching Tiny Lives in identifying mothers and children with HIV/AIDS in the most remote areas of Lesotho. Volunteers provided...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Friendly Visit

    • A Friendly Visit

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A woman infected with HIV shares a smile with her family and a home-based care worker (foreground) who was visiting to ensure the woman was continuing her TB treatment. Taken in Mangata, South Africa on June 16, 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Just Listening

    • Just Listening

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Instead of meeting outside on a rainy day, my youth group listens to a podcast about the HIV/AIDS crisis on my computer in a classroom at a school in South Africa on March 16, 2012. Everyone, including Nicholus, and his girlfriend Fairytale, payed...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • One Love Swazi Style

    • One Love Swazi Style

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is taken of the mural at the local KaGogo center (community center) in Mabondvweni, Swaziland. It is a take on the Swaziland flag by replacing the shield with a man and woman kissing. The intent of the mural is to display the importance...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Double Epidemic

    • Double Epidemic

    • HIV/AIDS

    • An elderly woman infected with HIV takes her TB medicine with food in the presence of a home-based worker in the morning in South Africa on June 16, 2011. HIV has fueled a TB epidemic in South Africa as well as many other countries.
    • Volunteer Photos

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