Topic: Haiti
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, ...
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 ...
Though struggles and stigma continue, Haiti has found success in its fight against AIDSWhen 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 ...
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 Paul Haggis and former ...
Openly gay marchers make first-ever appearance at World AIDS Day rally in HaitiA 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 ...
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 ...