The picture was taken in the home of my host family on New Year's Eve, 2001. The picture is taken in front of the decorated tree with the two children of my host family, This picture accompanies the story I submitted about the events of that...
This photo was taken on World AIDS Day (1 December 2011) at a march organized to raise awareness about AIDS. The picture shows some 9th grade students holding posters they made encouraging safe sex, dispelling stigmas and unfair stereotypes, and...
During my first year living in my community in Nicaragua, I loved spending my afternoons working with a youth group making videos about the community. After a while it became too much to continue editing all of the footage myself and so with a...
Photo was taken in Uganda at the International Candlelight Memorial 2012. Faith, age 6, is placing a candle in remembrance of the victims of AIDS. Faith was abandoned around the age of 4 and has tested HIV negative twice but some of her fellow...
In Nicaragua, clowns are a popular tool for discussing questions of the stigma and discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS positive people. In this scene, an ambulance worker and a TV reporter argue over whether or not to provide care for a man who has...
In parched north-eastern Nicaragua, a watermelon, tomato, or bell-pepper can mean the difference between good health and malnourishment. For someone living with HIV/AIDS, it can mean the difference between life and death. This photo was in 2012 as...
In parched north-eastern Nicaragua, a bell pepper can mean the difference between good health and malnourishment. For someone living with HIV/AIDS, it can mean the difference between life and death. This photo was in 2012 taken at a family garden...
AnKay, pictured, contemplates his work in contributing to group of over 30 youth that teamed up with Volunteer Martin do Nascimento to paint two huge murals on the walls of their high school dedicated to HIV/AIDS prevention.
Taken in 2012, during a Peace Corps workshop in Colombia, one Peace Corps Volunteer shows another the presentation that he's created to depict how HIV/AIDS attacks the immune system of the human body.
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.
Used powdered milk cans make great paint buckets for a group of over 30 Nicaraguan youth that teamed up with Volunteer Martin Hadsell do Nascimento to paint to huge murals dedicated to HIV/AIDS prevention on the walls of their high school.
A workshop participant at a PC HIV/AIDS workshop in Colombia is able to muster a smile in spite of the dire subject-matter of the day and her camera-shyness. Taken in Barranquilla, Colombia, 2012.
In parched north-eastern Nicaragua, a watermelon can make the difference between good health and malnourishment. For someone living with HIV/AIDS, it can mean the difference between life and death. This photo was in 2012 taken at a family garden...
Volunteer Tara and her counterpart work together to provide workshops to hospital staff at a public hospital in Nicaragua. The workshops focus on ensuring equal treatment of HIV positive patients, often times the exception rather than the rule...
In parched north-eastern Nicaragua, a handful of tomatoes can make the difference between good health and malnourishment. For someone living with HIV/AIDS, they can mean the difference between life and death. This photo was taken in 2012 at a...
Two stick figures are shown demonstrating one important aspect of HIV/AIDS: it only affects human beings. This was taken in Barranquilla, Colombia in 2012 during a Peace Corps workshop and was created by workshop participants.
This photo was taken on New Year's Eve, 2001 in the home of my host family in Berdychev, Ukraine. The family members were each dressed in their best clothes to celebrate the coming of Father Christmas at midnight. It was such a marvelous...