In July 2010, a group of PCVs in Madagascar toured Lac Alotra promoting HIV/AIDS awareness. We visited 9 towns in 10 days and talked to thousands of Malagasy people about protecting themselves from STDs. In this picture, a Malagasy woman runs to...
This photo is of my 10th grade Biology class at my school in Liberia. Period 4 was focused on health topics, and with donated condoms from the local hospital, and bananas brought by the students we learned how to use a condom correctly and 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...
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 on November 8, 2010, in a port town on the Upper Suriname river, Suriname. Chris Rodriguez (left) and another Volunteer teach participants of an HIV/AIDS prevention training how to properly dispose of condoms. The training was...
HIV/AIDS; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
Volunteer Ryan oversees a condom demonstration as secondary school girls practice applying a condom to a soda bottle during a regional girls conference at Kitangali Teacher's Training College in Newala, Mtwara, Tanzania on May 27, 2012. The bottles...
HIV/AIDS; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
Secondary school girls practice applying a condom to a soda bottle during a regional girls conference at Kitangali Teacher's Training College in Newala, Mtwara, Tanzania on May 27, 2012. The bottles serve as readily accessible substitutes when...
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.
HIV/AIDS; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
Volunteer Sativa demonstrates the proper use of a condom and answers questions during a regional girls conference at Kitangali Teacher's Training College, Newala, Mtwara, Tanzania on May 27, 2012. The girls empowerment conference included...
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...