HIV/AIDS; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
Volunteer Sativa demonstrates the difference between the inside and the outside of a condom during a regional girls conference at Kitangali Teacher's Training College, Newala, Mtwara, Tanzania on May 27, 2012. The girls empowerment conference...
This photo was taken on a field trip to visit Association du Jour in Casablanca during a 3-day VAST Grant Training that was organized for Volunteers and their community partners. Most people in Morocco know of HIV/AIDS but they have never met...
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.
This farmer was taught how to build a fish and raise tilapia by Elizabeth as part of the Peace Corps' Rural Aquaculture Promotion Project. Here he has taken some of his harvest to the town of Isoka, Zambia to sell, tying one kilogram (kg) of...
These are participants of the soy workshop I organized as part of a series of income-generating activity trainings for AIDS patients at the local hospital. They have just made soymilk, learning about nutrition and also opportunities for earning...
I took this photo walking home through Guayaquil on November 30th, 2009. I had been working late in anticipation of the launch of a new campaign to raise public awareness of HIV by my counterpart organization, Fundación VIHDA, the next day in the...
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.
This photo was taken in South Africa during my Peace Corps service. It is on Lion's Head Mountain. I am sitting on the ledge watching the sunset. I had the opportunity while serving in Botswana to backpack through Southern Africa and this was the...
I took this photo on World AIDS Day 2010 in a rural community in the Commonwealth of Dominica. The photo shows the primary school students who won the World AIDS Day Slogan Competition and had their design - "A Nation that is AIDS Free Begins with...
It was early in the morning. I was in Seronga at the Kgolta setting up for the World AIDS Day district event when I saw this group of school youth with posters parading the grounds.
I took this photo in July 2011 at a summer camp for at-risk youth infected and affected by HIV in Ukraine. Camp OHALOW (Overcoming HIV And Leading Our World) is a week-long HIV leadership camp where kids aged 10-13 have an opportunity to experience...
A young boy who is a relative of my host family was skeptical of my camera abilities. The photo was taken in the front yard of my host household in ga-Mathabatha, Limpoopo, South Africa, towards the end of my Peace Corps service.
On August 23, 2011, a girl plays a game in which you must leap and successfully get your feet over an elastic string. Two children were holding the ends of the string and moved it higher and higher with each jump. Orphans and vulnerable children...
This photo was taken in May 2007 at the Moshupa Secondary School in the village of Moshupa, Botswana during pre-service training. It is the stop sign at the entrance to the school.
I took this photo during an 8 day HIV/AIDS focused homebased care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide homebased care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
This photo was taken at the junior high school I teach at in Ghana during the week of World AIDS Day which was December 1, 2012. During the week, the students were taught lessons on HIV/AIDS and the teachers wore red ribbon pins to commemorate...
I took this photo on our last day of painting an AIDS awareness mural at a local CSPS in Burkina Faso, May 26th 2012. The mural was painted with the help of a secondary school girls group. The girls also came up with a skit and presented it at...
This photo is the two winning classes of the AIDS Awareness Week Question Competition. Each class was tasked to come up with a new question about AIDS, not the same old shop worn questions. Class 9A was the first place winners. They were rewarded...
This is a banner from an AIDS awareness festival, one of nine AIDS education and prevention events that a group of Madagascar PCVs organized and ran with the help of the PSI cinemobile during a week-long bicycle tour in the highlands of Madagascar...