Aids In Haiti

... Aids In Haiti Paul Farmer, in AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, shows how fatal disease leads to blame and how the blame's direction can be interpreted through anthropological and historical examination. AIDS has hit Haiti very hard, to the point that it can be called and epidemic. North America stigmatized Haiti as a "focus point" of the disease and linked it's origins in the U.S. to Haiti to the point that Haitian AIDS became a sort of urban legend which created a Haitian stigma as we see in his references to the New York discrimination of Haitians. Paul Farmer argues that through anthropological, historical, and medical research we can better understand both the AIDS epidemic as we see it now, and the stigmas that surround it. Paul Farmer claims that the AIDS epidemic of Haiti has no connection to the epidemic in Africa as many had suggested.

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