Support for International Change

Limiting the impact of HIV/AIDS in underserved communities and training future leaders in global health and development.

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Nothing can be changed until it is faced. | How will you make change happen? #goBIGGER #JamesBaldwin #inspiration #blackhistorymonth

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Put your lab coats on! Here comes a thinker: A retrovirus is a unique class of virus that is comprised of single-stranded RNA, instead of the more typical DNA. It’s most powerful ingredient is also it’s achilles heel. This would be the enzyme it carries known as Reverse Transcriptase. This enzyme has the ability to copy the DNA of the infected t-cell. So when the virus replicates, it creates what seems to the body as just a t-cell. This allows the virus to replicate over and over with very little the body can do to fight it. Thankfully, today’s medications have the ability to cripple the Reverse Transcriptase, blocking the virus from being able to replicate. This is why PEP is effective shortly after exposure, and also how low and undetectable viral loads are achieved. No one ever said HIV wasn’t complicated! (And that’s just it in a nutshell) KNOW HIV = NO HIV

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Cute baby elephant

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This concepts always blows my mind. We should all be living this way.

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The Stigma Project

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Very cool blog! I was in VP1 2009, pretty sure there wasn't any blog back then... Glad to get to see pictures of what you guys are up to now!

I am glad you like it! Pole about the lack of a blog then, now we're really making the effort to stay hip and cool. :)

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Only the best of dancers can be part of SIC. Photo Credit: Nguyen Phan

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Kati, our managing director, and Rachel are here enjoying the World AIDS Day events between convincing people to get tested for HIV. Photo Credit: Nguyen Phan

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One of our volunteers Rachel is quickly a preparing a poster to inform people where our free testing is on World AIDS Day.

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Our wonderful lady volunteers on World Aids Day!

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"Tuko Pamoja" means "we are together." It is also the first portion of our motto "Tuko Pamoja Kuushinda UKIMWI" which means "We are together in the fight against HIV/AIDS." For World AIDS Day we were able to bring body paint. Every single one of the kids loved it, not to mention all of us who were able to do the actual painting. Even our Swahili Teacher / Research Olga got in on the fun. And of course we had to paint ourselves. Check out Erin's super buff CD4+ Cell (The white bloods cells that help you fight off infections!) and check out Nguyen doing the Stoic Stanford Student thing. Photo Credits: Nguyen Phan

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Our friends at the Caucus for Children's Rights were able to send their traveling theater group that specializes in promoting children's rights to our World AIDS Day event. They were spectacular. Photo Credit: Nguyen Phan

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Another Thanksgiving feast photo at the Arusha Safari Lodge.

Photo Credit: Nguyen Phan

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Some late night poster making to teach anatomy and reproductive health the next day.

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During our programs volunteers go on break for about the week. The most popular destination: Zanzibar.

Photo Credit: Nguyen Phan