AIDS prevention in Haiti - November 21, 2003 |
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| Haitian student Laure, left, and a group of fellow students participate
in a class on how to use condoms in Port au Prince, Haiti, Friday, November 21, 2003. An
abstinence campaign has become a pet project of U.S. President George Bush's conservative
administration in one of the hardest hit nations in the Caribbean where the incidence of
AIDS. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada) |
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| Haitian students Laure, center, and Sandra, left, participate in a class
on to use condoms in Port au Prince, Haiti, Friday, November 21, 2003. An abstinence
campaign has become a pet project of U.S. President George Bush's conservative
administration in one of the hardest hit nations in the Caribbean where the incidence of
AIDS. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada) |
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| Haitians pass near a banner written in Creole 'Abstinence, Fidelity, or
use Condom always' in Port au Prince, Haiti, Friday, November 21, 2003. The abstinence
campaign has become a pet project of U.S. President George Bush's conservative
administration in one of the hardest hit nations in the Caribbean where the incidence of
AIDS is second only to sub-Saharan Africa. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada) |
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| Betty Alexandre, 27, a lab technician at the Las Cahobas Health Center,
run by the US-based Partners in Health and the Haitian health ministry, tests blood for
the AIDS virus on Monday, December 1, 2003, which is International AIDS Day. Ms. Alexandre
said the clinic, revamped about 15 months ago, tests about 150-200 people per week. Last
week, of 165 tested, 11 or about 6 percent - the average in Haiti - were found to be HIV
(news - web sites) positive. The clinic sees 250-360 people a day, and is currently
overseeing 168 patients who are taking the 'triple therapy' anti-HIV drug cocktail ,
according to Dr. Roland Desire, head of the clinics tuberculosis, AIDS and sexually
transmitted disease programs. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| Betty Alexandre, 27, a lab technician at the Las Cahobas Health Center,
run by the US-based Partners in Health and the Haitian health ministry, tests blood for
the AIDS virus on Monday, December 1, 2003, which is International AIDS Day. Ms. Alexandre
said the clinic, revamped about 15 months ago, tests about 150-200 people per week. Last
week, of 165 tested, 11 or about 6 percent - the average in Haiti - were found to be HIV
positive. The clinic sees 250-360 people a day, and is currently overseeing 168 patients
who are taking the 'triple therapy' anti-HIV drug cocktail , according to Dr. Roland
Desire, head of the clinics tuberculosis, AIDS and sexually transmitted disease programs.
(AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| Samson Tilus, 49, a farmer from Savanette, Haiti lying in a bed at the
Las Cahobas Health Center, run by the US-based Partners in Health and the Haitian health
ministry, is being treated for AIDS and also for tuberculosis, explains that he
can't work his fields any more because of his illness on Monday, December 1, 2003, which
is International AIDS Day. Dr. Roland Desire, 31, head of the tuberculosis, AIDS and
sexually transmitted diseases programs at the clinic, which is currently overseeing 168
patients who are taking the 'triple therapy' anti-HIVdrug cocktail, said Samson, who
arrived at the center 15 days ago, has a good chance of recovery. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| Samson Tilus, 49, a farmer from Savanette, Haiti lying in a bed at the
Las Cahobas Health Center, run by the US-based Partners in Health and the Haitian health
ministry, is being treated for AIDS and also for tuberculosis, explains that he can't work
his fields any more because of his illness on Monday, December 1, 2003, which is
International AIDS Day. Dr. Roland Desire, 31, head of the tuberculosis, AIDS and sexually
transmitted diseases programs at the clinic, which is currently overseeing 168 patients
who are taking the 'triple therapy' anti-HIV drug cocktail, said Samson, who arrived at
the center 15 days ago, has a good chance of recovery. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| A young resident of Boukan Carre, near Las Cahobas, Haiti, wears a
homemade headband which says 'USA' and has a condom under it as she sings a song about how
to prevent AIDS during a contest of AIDS awareness songs at a gathering organized by the
Partners in Health (Zanmi La Sante) a health center run to boost awareness about HIV and
stress the importance of not stigmatizing HIV-positive patients, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2003,
International AIDS Day. Haiti has a 6 percent HIV-positive rate, the highest outside
sub-Saharan Africa. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| Children in Boukan Carre, near Las Cahobas, Haiti, watch a contest of AIDS awareness
songs at a gathering organized by the Partners in Health (Zanmi La Sante) a health center
run to boost awareness about HIVand stress the importance of not stigmatizing HIV-positive
patients, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, International AIDS Day. The slogan on the water
reservoir the children are using as a bench reads: 'Youth of Boukan Carre, we'll beat
AIDS.' (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| A young resident of Boukan Carre, near Las Cahobas, Haiti, sings a song about using
condoms during a contest of AIDS awareness songs at a gathering organized by the Partners
in Health (Zanmi La Sante)a health center run to boost awareness about HIVand stress the
importance of not stigmatizing HIV-positive patients, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2003,
International AIDS Day. Haiti has a 6 percent HIV-positive rate, the highest outside
sub-Saharan Africa. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| Dr. Roland Desire, left, head the tuberculosis, AIDS and sexually transmitted disease
programs at the Las Cahobas Health Center, run by the US-based Partners in Health and the
Haitian health ministry, walks with Leone Louis, 27, right, and her son Franklin, 3, in
the middle, in Flande, Haiti, near Las Cahobas, during a visit Desire made to check on
Leone Louis, who is HIV -positive and is taking anti-retrovirals, on Monday, December 1,
2003, International AIDS Day. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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