This is an excerpt from an article in the Associated Press I'd like to share with everyone.
"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control deeply offended the country by listing Haitian nationality alongside hemophilia, homosexuality and heroin use as primary risk factors — nicknamed "the four H's." There was speculation that slum squalor or Voodoo ceremonies were responsible for the scourge.
By the mid-1980s the CDC's risk-factor list was amended, but the damage was done to Haiti's dignity and to tourism, then its second-largest industry, which collapsed and never recovered.
Yet the stigma may be what motivated Haiti to fight the disease harder, ...
The article essentially highlights the model success the country has had in combatting AIDS. It even states that Haitian teenagers are more aware of the risk factors for HIV than are American teenagers.
Now that the country seems to be overcoming one challenge, lets not forget the others it still faces. And according to the article, at least one of these challenges stems from unwarrented stereotyping and stigma.
We implore you with thirst for adventure and the kind of travel that gives back to not let sterotypes and stigma keep you from seeing the beautiful landscapes and adventures that await in Haiti.
"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control deeply offended the country by listing Haitian nationality alongside hemophilia, homosexuality and heroin use as primary risk factors — nicknamed "the four H's." There was speculation that slum squalor or Voodoo ceremonies were responsible for the scourge.
By the mid-1980s the CDC's risk-factor list was amended, but the damage was done to Haiti's dignity and to tourism, then its second-largest industry, which collapsed and never recovered.
Yet the stigma may be what motivated Haiti to fight the disease harder, ...
The article essentially highlights the model success the country has had in combatting AIDS. It even states that Haitian teenagers are more aware of the risk factors for HIV than are American teenagers.
Now that the country seems to be overcoming one challenge, lets not forget the others it still faces. And according to the article, at least one of these challenges stems from unwarrented stereotyping and stigma.
We implore you with thirst for adventure and the kind of travel that gives back to not let sterotypes and stigma keep you from seeing the beautiful landscapes and adventures that await in Haiti.
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