News on Haiti

How HIV Took the World by Storm

2010-11-29T14:48:12Z

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HIV and AIDS: Contributing factors in Haiti

2010-11-29T15:40:47Z

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Haitians with AIDS hit by broken promises of aid

2010-07-21T09:16:03Z

As Haiti struggles to rebuild itself after a devastating earthquake, people with AIDS are still waiting for aid promised to them before the catastrophe, activists here said Tuesday.

There are some 120,000 people with the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV in Haiti, which was hit by a huge earthquake on January 12, killing 250,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless.

An international pledge of 500 million dollars (385 million euro...

Betty White's Upcoming Calendar and More of This Week's Inspiring Pop Culture Moments

2010-09-10T23:50:39Z

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AIDS victims not forgotten in Haiti quake chaos

2010-04-16T07:19:54Z

Even in the chaos left by the January 12 earthquake, Resena and her one-year-old baby made their monthly visit to Port-au-Prince's Ghiesko clinic for AIDS treatment, preserving an unbroken lifeline that has sustained them for two years.

Located in the center of the city, Ghiesko (Haitian Group for Studies in Karposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections) is one of the first AIDS clinics in the world to be set up after the...

From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS

2010-04-16T11:29:40Z

Though struggles and stigma continue, Haiti has found success in its fight against AIDS

When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin.

Fifteen years later, she walks around her two-room concrete house on Haiti's central plateau, watching her four children play under the plantain trees. She looks healthy, her...

US, Italian stars inaugurate children's hospital in Haiti

2010-04-16T13:59:52Z

Celebrities from Hollywood and Italy helped cut the ribbon Wednesday on a new hospital for handicapped children in Haiti that has the highest infant mortality in the Western hemisphere.

US actress Madeleine Stowe, Italy's Martina Colombari, Canadian director Openly gay marchers make first-ever appearance at World AIDS Day rally in Haiti

A dozen men in T-shirts declaring "I am gay" and "I am living with HIV/AIDS" marched with hundreds of other demonstrators through a Haitian city on Sunday in what organizers called the Caribbean nation's first openly gay march.

Th...

Aid agencies: world's poor will be biggest victims

2010-04-16T12:55:43Z

The world's poorest people will be hungrier, sicker and have fewer jobs as a result of the global financial crisis, and cash-strapped aid agencies will be less able to help, aid groups are warning.

The charities that provide food, medicine and other relief on the ground say cutbacks have already started, but it will take months or more before the full impact is felt in the poorest countries of Africa, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Haiti Year Of Crisis

2010-12-31T12:01:50Z

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2010 file photo, people walk down a street amid earthquake rubble in Port-au-Prince, haiti. In 2010 crisis has piled upon crisis in Haiti. More than 230,000 are believed to have died in the quake, and more than a million remain homeless. A cholera epidemic broke out in the fall, and in its midst a dysfunctional election was held, its results still unclear.(AP Photo/Gregor...

Haiti France Adoption

2010-12-22T05:30:31Z

French citizen Pascal Blondeau, 38, holds her Haitian adopted daughter Daudeline Desir in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Dec. 21, 2010. French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said Saturday that 318 children had been cleared for adoption and were being allowe...

Disastrous Year YE

2010-12-19T08:01:18Z

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2010 file photo, a girl walks on debris outside a damaged building after an earthquake, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 _ the deadliest year in more than a generation. The January earthquake killed more than 220,000 people. Port-au-Prin...