Organization: Global Volunteer Projects

Details: You could be working on a government sponsored survey of high risk groups such as sex workers, to establish some of the social issues increasing the spread of HIV in India, accompanying AIDS orphans on their regular trips to the hospital to ensure that they are on the right combination of retro-viral drugs in Uganda, or visiting people living with HIV and AIDS at home on our counselling project in Ghana.

Background: Global Volunteer Projects is working with a number of different agencies to increase awareness of how to prevent transmission and infection of HIV/AIDS amongst key groups and also to try and remove some of the stigma attached to people living with HIV and AIDS.

Duration: Can be done as part of a gap year or during the summer holidays. For details please refer to website

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Nature: Hands-on

Region: HK/International

Source of Information: Global Volunteer Projects’s website