AIDS/HIV
As of 2005, as many as sixty percent of Haitians lived in poverty, with roughly two percent of the population infected with HIV. Today, the number of persons infected has risen to 4–6%, with rates increasing to 13% in certain rural neighborhoods.
In 1997, Grasadis was created as an organization that specializes in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS among the LGBT minority as well as working to educate the general public about this minority. Former first lady Mildred Aristide openly expressed support for Grasadis' work.
Read more about this topic: LGBT Rights In Haiti
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“Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.”
—Dennis Altman (b. 1943)