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.
I worked with HIV support groups in the Mashai River Valley in Lesotho to make "prayer flags" for HIV/AIDS. We went around to remote schools in the mountainous district of Thaba Tseka to ask students and teachers to create messages of hope about...
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.
Taken in Kukra Hill, Nicaragua, in 2012, this photo shows a group of over 30 youth that teamed up with PCV Martin do Nascimento to paint two huge murals on the walls of their high-school dedicated to HIVaids prevention.
This support group in Uganda would get together every 2 weeks throughout the year to talk about issues and concerns and receive education on HIV/AIDS. This picture is the group that came in September 2011. The group would sometimes have 15 to 80...
This photo was taken during an HIV/AIDS education and prevention, treatment, care, and support, and Reducing/eliminating stigma and discrimination support group that is held every 2 week throughout the year. The participants number in 15 to 86 at...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 in South Africa at a primary school in celebration of the school's first recognition of World AIDS Day. Here a learner presents basic fact to a student body of close to 700 other learners on the current...
This photo was taken July 2011 in Ghana. I, Britany Ferrell, trained students to be HIV/AIDS peer educators at a senior high school where I was a teacher. In this picture you see my students wearing their blue HIV peer educator t-shirts, giving a...
This picture was taken at the open house during our "HIV Tour" in Ecuador on September 16, 2011. Middle and high school students participated in an interactive presentation on basic HIV information and played games testing their knowledge on HIV...
This was the actual handmade butterfly that was passed out to the health center staff in a town in Guatemala on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011. It was a way to promote HIV awareness and the hope of finding a cure in the near future for HIV.
On World AIDS day the members of the local HIV group MASUPHA (Makete Supplies People Living with HIV/AIDS) marched through villages in Tanzania. The group members and I were wearing Peace Corps 50th anniversary Khangas made by Peace Corps...
HIV/AIDS; Health; Education; Celebrations; Traditional dress; Music
On World AIDS day the members of the local HIV group MASUPHA (Makete Supplies People Living with HIV/AIDS) marched in the villages of Tanzania. The group members and I were wearing Peace Corps 50th anniversary Khangas made by Peace Corps...