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- Clowning
- HIV/AIDS
- In Nicaragua, clowns are a popular tool for discussing questions of the stigma and discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS positive people. In this scene, an ambulance worker and a TV reporter argue over whether or not to provide care for a man who has...
- Volunteer Photos
- Condom Games
- HIV/AIDS
- Volunteer Alison (Education, Kenya 2010-2012) helps a girl open a condom for a condom relay race held at the annual Camp GLOW, which empowers girls through HIV/AIDS education. The camp also focuses on relationships, gender violence, and careers for...
- Volunteer Photos
- Cookin' for Health
- On World AIDS Day on December 1st, 2011 the local primary school hosted an event in honor of all those with HIV and the ones who have lost the struggle against AIDS. These two bo-make (mothers) prepared the food for the community members as well as...
- Volunteer Photos
- Dancing and Loving Life
- HIV/AIDS
- The creation of support groups and training peer educators for people living with HIV/AIDS is a valuable and often underfunded effort. These groups are a valuable, ‘safe-space’ where people can find a chance to be open about their status, learn...
- Volunteer Photos
- Dancing and Loving Life
- HIV/AIDS
- Creation of support groups and training peer educator for People Living with HIV/AIDS is a valuable and often underfunded effort. These groups are a valuable, ‘safe-space’ where people can find a chance to be open about their status, learn...
- Volunteer Photos
- Dedoplistskaro's AIDS Ribbon
- HIV/AIDS
- The photo was a spur of the moment idea that quickly bloomed into a school wide effort. The Ministry of Education in Georgia held a health-related photo contest on Facebook, with different schools submitting their own photos. They asked me if I...
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- Educated Yourself. Protect Yourself.
- HIV/AIDS
- For World AIDS Day 2011, students in an indigenous village in Ecuador gathered together to learn not only about HIV/AIDS in Ecuador as a whole, but how they can help educate their friends and families about protection. We talked about the real risk...
- Volunteer Photos
- Education
- HIV/AIDS
- I took this photo walking to St. Theresa Primary School in Lesotho. Lesotho has one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the world. Primary education is free, but only goes up to 5th grad. Education is a key in helping Lesotho have an HIV/AIDS-free...
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- Empowered Youth
- HIV/AIDS
- The young girls of Mibenge Basic schools Ishiwi lya Abanna, meaning voice of the children, come together as they dance and sing there way on the gravel road, uniting all to come together to fight against the stigma of HIV/AIDS. -Luapula, Zambia.
- Volunteer Photos
- Fatima's Gift
- HIV/AIDS
- A student in Morocco holds some of the ribbons that were distributed during a local music festival. Volunteers, a Moroccan HIV/AIDS organization, and local high school students conducted outreach and HIV testing.I took this photo during a local...
- Volunteer Photos
- Filming an Educational Soap Opera
- In April 2012, Peace Corps Volunteers in the Dominican Republic completed the fourth and final filming of an educational soap opera. The project was designed for Volunteers to use technology in innovative ways to address common adolescent issues...
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- Gaoua
- HIV/AIDS
- I took this picture during World Aids Day in Gaoua, Burkina Faso, (West Africa) with the 10th grade students on December 5, 2011. This picture showed the participation of students during World Aids Day.
- Volunteer Photos
- Girls Leading Our World (GLOW)
- HIV/AIDS
- Three Kenyan secondary students (from left: A-Star, Monica, and Emily) attend May 2012 Camp GLOW for 55 secondary female students from Kenya's Eastern and Coast Provinces. The camp focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, stigma reduction, as...
- Volunteer Photos
- Green Tomatoes
- HIV/AIDS; Gardens
- In parched north-eastern Nicaragua, a handful of tomatoes can make the difference between good health and malnourishment. For someone living with HIV/AIDS, they can mean the difference between life and death. This photo was taken in 2012 at a...
- Volunteer Photos
- HIV in Life Skills Class
- HIV/AIDS
- Kenyan students work together to review what they have learned so far this year in life skills class, including HIV/AIDS prevention, transmission and treatment techniques.
- Volunteer Photos
- HIV in the Classroom
- HIV/AIDS
- Volunteer Mark Stratton Jr. (Education, Kenya 2010-12) teaches a Life Skills class to form 1 (freshmen) students about HIV transmission and the effects it has on the immune system.
- Volunteer Photos
- HIV Poster Contest
- HIV/AIDS
- This is my student at Savelugu School for the Deaf in the Northern Region of Ghana, Mohammed Sayibu, who is participating in an HIV poster contest at her school. This photo was taken in June of 2012.
- Volunteer Photos