Winners of the Peace Corps AIDS-Free Generation Photo Contest

More than 500 photos were submitted to the Peace Corps for the contest. The top three photos from each category and the People’s Choice Award will be exhibited at the Carnegie Library in Washington from July 23 to 26. Additional submissions will be displayed during the International AIDS Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in D.C.

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Photographic Technical Merit: First Place

Participants of Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) work to solve a nine-piece puzzle of an HIV awareness ribbon, as part of an HIV relay. The weeklong camp in February encouraged leadership for 20 junior high and seven senior high girls from various villages.

Jeanna Rolsing — Volunteer In Ghana, 2010-2012 / Peace Corps

Photographic Technical Merit: Second Place

Youth in Ukraine light candles to remember victims of HIV/AIDS.

Henry Shymonovych — Peace Corps Ukraine Staff, 2005-present / Peace Corps

Photographic Technical Merit: Third Place

Children stand in front of a local store in a mountainous region of Swaziland, the country with the highest HIV rate in the world. One in every four people is infected with the virus, while everyone in this small country is affected. The children of Swaziland suffer the most, many losing their parents to the epidemic. According to statistics, it is likely that at least one of the children in the photo has HIV.

Ryan Fouss — Volunteer In Swaziland, 2011-2013 / Peace Corps

Treatment, Care and Support: First Place

Family members grieve at a deuil, or mourning ceremony, on the outskirts of Bandjoun, Cameroon, in August 2004. Many Cameroonians deny the existence of AIDS and insist that many die as a result of the flu, pneumonia or even sorcery. However, AIDS often leads to such deaths. This photo shows a "sorcery" victim's sister (holding a photograph of the victim) with her brothers and mother.

Peter Bine — Volunteer In Cameroon, 2003-2005 / Peace Corps

Treatment, Care and Support: Second Place

Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Camp participants play trust games, helping them to feel comfortable with one another in hopes of encouraging them to open up and share their experiences. In April, several campers led seminars on HIV and AIDS. A nurse also spoke about HIV/AIDS prevention.

Lindsey Hanson — Volunteer in Ghana, 2011-2013 / Peace Corps

Treatment, Care And Support: Third Place

A laboratory assistant from a health center in Uganda tests village women for HIV. Volunteers helped test more than 100 men, women and youths on June 21, 2011.

Mari Kelley — Volunteer in Uganda, 2010-2012 / Peace Corps

Education and Prevention: First Place

Children in Botswana gather for a weekly library club at their primary school. Volunteer Harmony Caton spent time with the children, combining art, computer lessons and HIV/AIDS education. The students often practiced by typing out phrases and statistics from books about HIV/AIDS.

Harmony Caton — Volunteer in Botswana, 2004-2006 / Peace Corps

Education and Prevention: Second Place

Volunteer Sativa demonstrates the proper use of a condom and answers questions during a regional girls' empowerment conference at a teacher training college in Tanzania. The conference included Peace Corps volunteers and secondary-school girls from two regions in Tanzania. The conference lasted three days, and topics ranged from women's reproductive health to goal setting and gender roles.

Tyler Jump — Volunteer In Tanzania, 2011-2013 / Peace Corps

Education and Prevention: Third Place

A youth promoter in Nicaragua teaches fellow youths about the proper use of a condom to prevent HIV infection. Such lessons were part of an HIV fair during World AIDS Day 2011.

Don Condon — Volunteer in Nicaragua, 2011-2013 / Peace Corps

Reducing/Eliminating Stigma and Discrimination: First Place

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.

Molly Green — Morocco, 2011-2013 / Peace Corps

Reducing/Eliminating Stigma and Discrimination: Second Place

The actor in red, representing the AIDS virus, attacks the four corners of the world in this scene from "Acting Out," an awareness play. "Acting Out" is a Peace Corps Partnership Project from a youth center in Morocco, presented in February.

Leslie Surrett — Morocco, 2010-2012 / Peace Corps

Reducing/Eliminating Stigma and Discrimination: Third Place

Volunteer Ryan Lehman, dressed as a condom, prepares to lead children on a march through the streets of a town in Ecuador. Participants marched to the central park where they had set up displays and distributed HIV/AIDS prevention information.

Ryan Lehman — Volunteer In Ecuador, 2006-2008 / Peace Corps

People's Choice Award

A student at a primary school in Cambodia shows his AIDS ribbon as he waits for a presentation on HIV/AIDS for World AIDS Day 2011.

Matthew Dantism — Volunteer In Cambodia, 2011-2013 / Peace Corps

FEATURED PHOTO GALLERIES

A protestor in a Guy Fawkes mask walks past razor wire outside a security perimeter of the G-8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Monday, June 17, 2013. The summit is taking place under heavy security, with some 7,000 police lining roads and checking vehicles. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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Two-year old male rat named Dyatlik wears a costume during a rodent exhibition in Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, June 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Animal views

Rodent exhibition, swimming with elephants, Mexico’s feline mayoral candidate and more.

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 14: Johnathon Carrington, valedictorian at Dunbar High School, laughs with family and friends after his school's graduation ceremony at Howard University on Friday, June 14, 2013, in Washington, DC. Carrington, who grew up in Tyler House public-housing apartments and is graduating from one of DC's low-performing high schoolsy, where academic expectations are high. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)

Johnathon’s journey

Johnathon Carrington graduated Friday as the valedictorian of his neighborhood school, Dunbar High, and is headed to Georgetown University. But Carrington, 17, is nervous, and so are...

U.S. actress Sandra Bullock poses for the media during a photocall to promote her latest move 'The Heat' in Berlin June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT)

Eye on entertainment

Sandra Bullock, Jessica Sanchez, Snooki, Billy Porter, Billy Crystal, Sean Hayes, Gwen Stefani and other celebrities.

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 16: Reenactors dressed as knights stage a medieval jousting competition at Eltham Palace on June 16, 2013 in Eltham, England. The 'Grand Medieval Joust' event at Eltham Palace, an English Heritage property which was the childhood home of King Henry VIII, aims to give a great insight into life at the palace during the medieval period. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

The Grand Medieval Joust

The Grand Medieval Joust at Eltham Palace, an English Heritage property that was the childhood home of King Henry VIII, aims to lend insight through reenactment into life at the palace...

In this June 8, 2013 photo, youth compete in the Sao Carlos slum local soccer tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The pitch is just dirt and the incandescent lights aren't so bright. But when the boys' feet strike the football in the Sao Carlos slum as night falls every Saturday, big league dreams glow, inflated by the hope of escaping the shantytown with sporting skills. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Brazil’s other soccer fields

With the Confederations Cup opening this week and the World Cup one year away, all eyes are on Brazil, where soccer is arguably played with more passion and art than anywhere else....

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 16: John F. Tatum Sr. hugs his grandson John F. Tatum III during his annual Father's Day block party on Sunday, June 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Amanda Voisard/For the Washington Post)

Father’s Day picnic in Northeast D.C.

A decades-old backyard barbecue in Northeast Washington draws hundreds in honor of dads everywhere. “It’s off-the-chain fun,” says Butch McNair, who has worked one...

LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 16: Miss Connecticut USA Erin Brady reacts after being crowned Miss USA during the 2013 Miss USA pageant at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on June 16, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Miss USA 2013

Miss Connecticut USA Erin Brady is crowned Miss USA 2013 in Las Vegas.

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