Haiti's Hope - Response to the AIDS Epidemic
Community Health Workers in Haiti have had one of the most astounding responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in industrialized or developing countries worldwide. When the epidemic first came to Haiti’s shores, many world leaders thought the country was too poor and underdeveloped to make intervention worthwhile. In the decades since, they have been proven wrong. The World Security Institute writes that "Twenty-five years after the AIDS epidemic was given a name, it is a plague with tangled ties between the wealthiest and the poorest countries in the hemisphere. With HIV rates second only to those of sub-Saharan Africa, Caribbean islands that conjure visions of sun, sand, and tourism now highlight the interplay between poverty and the epidemic in this hemisphere."
This short film, In Focus - Haiti's Hope by the Pulitzer Center, showcases what health clinics in rural and urban Haiti are doing, in order to create a sustainable approach to treating disease – and help the Haitian people move out of the world’s most dire poverty level at the same time.
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