This picture was taken at my local market, in a village in Burkina Faso. We were celebrating World AIDS Day 2011 by creating a mural with HIV/AIDS prevention images and explaining those images to the public. We played games, asked the audience...
This photo was taken in June 2011 at an HIV/AIDS education workshop with sexual diversity groups in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. This picture was taken during "Step by Step," an activity that teaches the correct steps pertaining to condom use.
They can all be used to teach about HIV! In celebration of World AIDS Day this past December 1st, my Nicaraguan Ministry of Health counterpart and I organized a pool tournament. In between each round of games we gave short talks on what is HIV, the...
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 image was taken during a discussion on family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention in February of 2012 in a village 8 kilometers from our local hospital. Before giving a condom demonstration, we had a relay race. A team of four men and four...
This photo was taken in the Peace Corps office in Windhoek, Namibia in 2008. It shows one of the ways information about HIV/AIDS is shared. I was a health Volunteer, so naturally my focus was HIV/AIDS. I explored many ways of teaching and sharing...
The photo was taking in Mpepo Village, Zambia. It was during VCT Day (Voluntary Counseling and Testing), June 30 2008. The man's name is Ed and he is one of the volunteer counselor who is a great counterpart that I worked with my two years in the...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...