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    • Waiting in Wembezi on World AIDS Day 2011

    • Waiting in Wembezi on World AIDS Day 2011

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Waiting for the start of World AIDS Day training in a township in South Africa are members of the Christian Church of Africa, whose Archbishop was the first to welcome PLWHAs into churches in his diocese. Also depicted is Volunteer Mary Pat...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What Stigma in the Community Looks Like

    • What Stigma in the Community Looks Like

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A male caregiver and youth leader demonstrate what 'stigma in the community' looks like in a role play that was part of a two day Stigma Symposium held in South Africa in November, 2011. Here the older man helps his young friend while community...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Medical Ritual

    • A Medical Ritual

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Remote HIV Outreach

    • Remote HIV Outreach

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Hike to a remote village in the mountains near Mokhotlong, Lesotho. Peace Corps volunteers assisted organization Touching Tiny Lives in identifying mothers and children with HIV/AIDS in the most remote areas of Lesotho. Volunteers provided...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Friendly Visit

    • A Friendly Visit

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Just Listening

    • Just Listening

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Instead of meeting outside on a rainy day, my youth group listens to a podcast about the HIV/AIDS crisis on my computer in a classroom at a school in South Africa on March 16, 2012. Everyone, including Nicholus, and his girlfriend Fairytale, payed...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • One Love Swazi Style

    • One Love Swazi Style

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is taken of the mural at the local KaGogo center (community center) in Mabondvweni, Swaziland. It is a take on the Swaziland flag by replacing the shield with a man and woman kissing. The intent of the mural is to display the importance...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Double Epidemic

    • Double Epidemic

    • HIV/AIDS

    • An elderly woman infected with HIV takes her TB medicine with food in the presence of a home-based worker in the morning in South Africa on June 16, 2011. HIV has fueled a TB epidemic in South Africa as well as many other countries.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • STOP and Think!

    • STOP and Think!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is of two of the local preschool children in Swaziland. Learning about 'STOPPING' and thinking before you go near someone else's blood. The children learned the common 'stop' hand signal when learning about HIV and proudly displayed it...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day, getting to zero.

    • World AIDS Day, getting to zero.

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is taken on December 1st, 2011 in Swaziland. In organizing a day event at the local primary school to raise awareness and decrease stigma of HIV/AIDS, the students participated in various ways. This picture is of young primary school...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Human Rights and Stigma

    • Human Rights and Stigma

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo, taken on World AIDS Day 2011 at the Christian Church of Africa located South Africa, depicts Thukela Amajuba Mzinyathi (TAMCC) staff person teaching about human rights pertaining to HIV/AIDS and stigma. This was one of 16 events that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • STOP AIDS!

    • STOP AIDS!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in May 2012, outside the local preschool. The children learned about putting a 'STOP' to AIDS and basics on how to avoid getting the virus. The kids were drawing in the sand showing the hand signal to stopping AIDS.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV Prayer Flags

    • HIV Prayer Flags

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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 Photos
    • Lesotho Cemetery

    • Lesotho Cemetery

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This cemetery full of small, child-sized graves is a common sight in Lesotho where over 20% of the population is infected with HIV/AIDS. Volunteers in Peace Corps Lesotho are working with mothers and village health care workers in Lesotho to help...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • United We Stand

    • United We Stand

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at the World AIDS Day event in a community in Swaziland. This group of young primary students are a part of the school's health club. They performed a drama about 'getting to zero' in terms of zero new infections, zero related...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nquthu Youth Say No to Stigma!

    • Nquthu Youth Say No to Stigma!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This group photo taken in rural South Africa, shows the youth group of the local church along with TAMCC (Thukela Amajuba Mzinyathi Christian Council) staff and Volunteer Mary Pat Brennan, Peace Corps South Africa 2010-2012. Zodwa, in the front...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Education

    • Education

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo walking to St. Theresa Primary School in Lesotho. Lesotho has one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the world. Primary education is free, but only goes up to 5th grad. Education is a key in helping Lesotho have an HIV/AIDS-free...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching About Stigma in the Church

    • Teaching About Stigma in the Church

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo taken at TAMCC's offices in South Africa, shows a young project assistant delivering her first training session on Stigma and HIV Prevention to clergy and male caregivers following the 2011 World AIDS Day events sponsored by TAMCC...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Child with Gogo

    • Child with Gogo

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A gogo (grandmother) takes her TB medicine with food during a visit by a home-based care worker on the morning of June 16, 2011, while her grandson sits across the table. She is one of the many people in South Africa affected by both HIV and TB....
    • Volunteer Photos

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