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New Treatment Centers, Staff Training, and Referral System Strengthen HIV Care in Haiti
Marie Madelaine’s story is not unique in Haiti, which has the highest HIV prevalence rate in the Western Hemisphere at 1.8 percent. Among the 100,000 adults and 13,000 children living with HIV in Haiti, an estimated 60,000 individuals are in need of life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART). Until ...
UNAIDS encourages Haiti to eliminate HIV in children
The President of Haiti ushered in World AIDS Day 2012 commemorations with a note of hope. “It would be a very beautiful success story if we could pull off an HIV-free generation,” declared President Michel Martelly, in a meeting on 30 November with UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé.
In ...
Getting to Zero: Working Towards an HIV-Free Generation in Haiti
In recent years, Haiti has endured some of the greatest misfortunes in its history, including hurricanes, floods, the devastating 2010 earthquake, and the cholera epidemic that followed. These natural disasters and public health crises have added to the harm already caused by the country’s widespr ...
Knowledge is the best weapon in the fight against HIV discrimination
In the Caribbean, Haiti has the highest rate of HIV infection. Fortunately, due to many international organizations and their HIV and AIDS prevention programmes the prevalence of the disease has gone from 2.2 per cent to 1.9 per cent between 2011 and 2012, according to the Ministry of Public Hea ...
Against All Odds, Haiti makes Advances in HIV/AIDS
For World AIDS Day 2012, the National Haitian Health Alliance (NHAHA) wants to celebrate the advances made in the epidemiology of AIDS amongst Haitians in Haiti and the Diaspora. In fact, Haiti has much to triumph in light of this World AIDS Day. The country’s rate of HIV incidence has been gradua ...
Getting to Zero: Fight to End HIV Stigma in Haitian Community Continues
By Joelle Pierre Louis Before we knew as much as we know about HIV/AIDS, it was considered the 4H disease: Homosexuals, Hemophiliacs, Heroin users, and Haitians. In the early 1980′s, the scientists of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified the 4Hs as high-risk groups and ...
Girls Become the Voice of Sex Education in Haiti
Sex education is not a guaranteed part of formal education in Haiti. Now, young girls in rural regions are taking advantage of nurse-led sex education and life skills clubs to take control of their futures.
JÉRÉMIE, HAITI – “Young girls here start having babies when they are only 14 years ol ...
Haitian Health Minister urges PANCAP to intensify efforts
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Haiti’s Minister of Health and Chair of the Executive Board, Honourable Dr. Florence Duperval Guillaume, called on members of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) to strengthen coordination efforts and t ...
PANCAP TO HOLD KEY GOVERNANCE MEETINGS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) will hold three meetings related to its governance and operations on 4-6 September 2012, in Haiti. A Special Meeting of the PACC: Partners Coordination Meeting will be ...
Adolescents map HIV risks, part of a holistic approach to treating HIV/AIDS in Haiti
From 22 to 27 July, experts are gathering in Washington, D.C., for the International AIDS Society’s biennial conference on rolling back the HIV and AIDS epidemic. UNICEF has hosted a leadership forum stressing the need for innovation in eliminating new HIV infections in children. This story is par ...
Haiti wins international award for HIV/AIDS work
CMC – An organisation in Haiti is among 10 community-based organisations worldwide honoured for their innovative and outstanding community work in the response to the AIDS epidemic. The Red Ribbon Award, which was first presented in 2006, is handed out every two years. SEROvie of Haiti, whic ...
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Caribbean Social Marketing (CARISMA) Project HIV and AIDS Prevention and Reproductive Health Promotion
Programme summaries for Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, Belize, Suriname, Easter Caribbean
Scaling-up HIV Treatment Programmes in Resource-limited Settings
This study describes and evaluates the scale up of an HIV/AIDS treatment project to provide comprehensive care to an entire department (pop. 550,000) in rural Haiti. It examines the feasibility and effectiveness of community based health care in resource poor settings. It is hoped that the experienc ...
Street theatre : a tool for fighting sexual risks
The Entr'aide Gwadloup association, which advocates in the field of sexual risk prevention, recently benefited from training in “education through entertainment” provided by the Haitian association, Foundation for Reproductive Health and Family Education (FOSREF) with the assistance ...
MSU develops Caribbean HIV prevention plan
The MSU Institute of International Health has developed a new approach to HIV prevention in the Caribbean, where many people are infected with the disease because of a lack of knowledge and resources.
Reza Nassiri, associate dean of global health programs and the director of the Institute of Inter ...
PSI Haiti, MAP Study Evaluating Coverage, Quality of Coverage and Access to Social Marketing Products (2006)
The objectives of this MAP (Measuring Access and Performance) study were to determine the coverage, quality of coverage, penetration and access of the eight different social marketing products distributed by PSI/Haiti, in the residential areas of all seven intervention areas of PSI/Haiti, covering t ...
PSI Haiti TRaC Survey: Study among youth 15-24 years (2008)
A follow on from the 2006 TRaC study, this 2008 survey aims to 1) track the behavioural indicators and the determinants measured in 2006 and to identify significant changes over time and 2) identify the determinants of sexual activity, number of partners and condom use in 2008 and 3) to determ ...
PSI Haiti TRaC Survey: Behaviour of female sex workers (2008) PSI Haiti TRaC Survey: Behaviour of female sex workers (2008)
This study, which is the second TRaC study among sex workers in Haiti on the use of condoms during sexual intercourse, compares the 2006 and 2008 results, on the use of condoms and the factors that differentiated between those who use condoms and those who do not. It evaluates the impact of PS ...
PSI Haiti TRaC Survey: Behaviour of female sex workers (2006)
The objectives of the survey was to segment the population of female sex workers in Haïti and to identify the determining factors of condom use with a love partner. The study found that the age of the sex workers, their persuasive power in getting their partners to use condoms, and their over ...
PSI Haiti MAP Study Evaluating the Coverage, Quality of Coverage, Access, and Penetration of Condoms (2008)
This 2008 HIV MAP study is a follow up survey to one conducted in 2006, determining the levels of coverage, quality of coverage, penetration rate, and access of/to condoms in various parts of Haiti and in specific high-risk areas for HIV/AIDS (hotzones). The survey found that on average, the availab ...
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