Posts tagged World AIDS Day
Life is calling. How far will you go?
Peace Corps Volunteer Katia Sirios works with EVE for Life, an organization that offers counseling and advocacy support for HIV-positive women and children. At the organizations drop-in center, women can bring their children to a safe space where they have access to computers, job assistance programs, and counseling.
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Fatima’s Gift
A student in Morocco holds some of the ribbons that were distributed during a local music festival. Volunteers, a Moroccan HIV/AIDS organization, and local high school students conducted outreach and HIV testing.
Taken by Peace Corps Volunteer Molly Green
“We are going to win this fight. But the fight is not over.” —President Obama
Positive and Negative Brotherhood
Two boys are walking home from school, one is HIV positive and the other HIV negative. Swaziland has a HIV prevalence between 26-33% percent depending on what study you are looking at. Everyone everywhere is living with or around it and yet it is still not openly discussed. These boys defy that norm though and that is partially due to the fact that they can’t remember a time when things were different. The positive boy helps his brother with his schoolwork while the negative boy helps his brother to take his ARVs. Through the simple act of brotherhood, these two boys are helping a community fight stigma and helping to solidify the idea that HIV is a part of daily life.
Peace Corps HIV/AIDS Volunteer Brandon Bobisink
These photos were taken on May 20, 2011 at the HIV/Aids candlelight memorial in Ukraine. Students of all ages participated in a candlelight walk, quizzes focused on prevention and stigma reduction, behavior pledges, and presented interpretive dance, song and readings. The evening ended with an outdoor disco in what is now an annual event.
Peace Corps Community Development Volunteer Victoria Lamb
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A Peace Corps Volunteer assists with HIV/AIDS testing at a local clinic in Botswana that focuses on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission.
This photo was taken after a week-long training of trainers on the topic of HIV/AIDS and behavior change communication in the Philippines, which included interviews of local sex workers, and a testimonial from a person living with HIV.
Peace Corps Youth Development Volunteer Blake Van Fleteren, one of the facilitators of the training, lighting the last candle to complete the red ribbon.
In honor of World AIDS Day, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently unveiled the PEPFAR Blueprint for Creating an AIDS-Free Generation and our Volunteers are playing a key role in this initiative!
Learn more about it at www.pepfar.gov
A Peace Corps Education Volunteer teaches AIDS awareness to deaf students using Kenyan sign language.
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This photo was taken during a World AIDS Day observance in Lovech, Bulgaria in 2011. Youth volunteers from the Bulgarian Red Cross spent the afternoon passing out brochures, condoms, etc. in the Lovech city center. The event culminated with the lighting of an AIDS awareness ribbon.
- Peace Corps Health Volunteer Horace Askins
