HIV/AIDS in Haiti 4/16/2003
with Fred de Sam Lazaro
This video feature is the first in a series of spotlights from kaisernetwork.org on local efforts around the world to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic
. View our other video features on India and Brazil.
Haiti is set to receive $67 million in grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The Global Fund money will help provide these drugs to HIV/AIDS patients, with most of the funds being used to open 25 new testing and counseling centers throughout the country.
Our reportâ??prepared by Fred de Sam Lazaro, also a correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrerâ??features interviews with First Lady Mildred Aristide and Doctors Paul Farmer and William Pape, who are on the frontlines of Haiti's efforts.
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CONTEXT OF THE EPIDEMIC |
250,000: Estimated number of HIV infected persons by the end of 2001 |
7,063,722: Population of Haiti (2001) |
30,000: Estimated number of deaths due to AIDS during 2001 |
200,000: Estimated number of children who have lost their mother or father or both parents to AIDS and who were alive and under the age of 15 (2001) |
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