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    • Stop AIDS, Love Life

    • Stop AIDS, Love Life

    • HIV/AIDS

    • After having completed our first HIV/AIDS meeting ever at our senior high school, we went around teaching them the "Stop AIDS, Love Life" handshake which everyone fell in love with. This photo was taken this year, 2012, after my form 2 students...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gaoua

    • 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
    • Red Ribbon Benches

    • Red Ribbon Benches

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken on May 5th, 2012, during an HIV/AIDS mini-camp at a school in Ukraine. As part of the camp, all of the students had the opportunity to help paint HIV facts and statistics on the benches. Benches are a great way to raise...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Imprinting on the Future

    • Imprinting on the Future

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011, at a lyceum in Ukraine. The photo shows four primary school girls admiring several posters on World AIDS Day. I organized a school-wide poster contest with my school psychologist to raise awareness about...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • PC Mongolia, World Aids Day Game

    • PC Mongolia, World Aids Day Game

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Here are some of our students playing a game centered on myths and facts about AIDS/HIV. This took place at a nursing school in Mongolia during the school's first Worlds AIDS Awareness Day on December 2, 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Educated Yourself. Protect Yourself.

    • 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
    • Dancing and Loving Life

    • 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
    • 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
    • Holistic Care

    • Holistic Care

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during my first support group with adolescents infected with HIV. The support group took place in Guyana. Participants were asked to write questions or topics relating to their medication and put them in a box. We discussed each...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparation for Prevention

    • Preparation for Prevention

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at the preparation meeting we had for an HIV/AIDS outreach and testing during a local music festival. We worked alongside a Moroccan organization and local high school students. This is one of the students packing an...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The solution is All of Us

    • The solution is All of Us

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was snapped on June 20, 2012. These are the winning learners at a senior secondary school, in Namibia, grades 9A and 10A. One of the AIDS Awareness Week activities was to submit a class question and the top three would win a prize. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • "You were my friend before I got AIDS"

    • "You were my friend before I got AIDS"

    • HIV/AIDS; Music

    • This music school, located in Mozambique, performs in various community events, like the wedding pictured here. At the school, they learn to play instruments, to sing, and to dance traditional dances. Many of the songs that they sing and perform...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Paper Making

    • Paper Making

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • In April 2012, a club of primary school students learned how to make recycled paper at a local teacher training school in a small town in southern Mozambique. In this club, students learn skills that will help them to support themselves or their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Reusable Menstrual Pads in Uganda

    • Reusable Menstrual Pads in Uganda

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at a training for senior headwoman teachers and headteachers. The teachers are learning to sew reusable menstrual pads from affordable, locally available materials so that they can teach their upper primary girl students how to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dedoplistskaro's AIDS Ribbon

    • 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
    • Interview #363

    • Interview #363

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo in October 2011 in the rural village of Velingara in Kedougou, Senegal. This was part of an HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) study in an entire health district, surveying a total of 810 people. The photo shows a...
    • 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

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