The purpose of this blog is to explore the disease HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. Also to get a better understanding of why the citizens some Caribbean countries are not properly educated as it relates to contracting HIV/AIDS.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
HIV/AIDS in Haiti after earthquake
“After the earthquake in 2010, sexual violence in Haiti went through the roof. The most vulnerable people, children and women, were more than ever exposed to rape and abuse. It was really, really bad. Men would grab them in their tents, just like that,” says Marie Sonie Brizon, a 23 year-old woman who lives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
However:
Haitian infection rates dropped from 6.2 percent to 3.1 percent among expectant mothers in the last 15 years. Researchers recently switched to a new methodology that tests all adults, which puts Haiti's official rate at 2.2 percent, according to UNAIDS
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/31755066/ns/health-aids/t/haiti-surprise-good-news-about-aids/#.VUjaBKHD8dU
http://www.unaids.org/en/regionscountries/countries/haiti/
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I love how you inform people about HIV. You posted many videos and all of them have big impacts on people's heart, I think.
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