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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“Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.”
—Amanda Heggs, British AIDS sufferer. Quoted in Guardian (London, June 12, 1989)