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Soon after they identified the 4H's of HIV/AIDS: homosexuals, haemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians.
by decasteve 13y ago
Soon after they identified the 4H's of HIV/AIDS: homosexuals, haemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians.
- aasarava 13y agoHaitians in the US were discriminated against on the belief that they were bringing AIDS into the country. But medical anthropologist Paul Farmer has done a good job of showing that Haitians were only more "susceptible" to the virus than other populations because American sex tourists often visited Haiti and inadvertently spread the disease to Haitian sex workers. http://www.amazon.com/AIDS-Accusation-Haiti-Geography-Blame/dp/0520248392 http://www.amazon.com/AIDS-Accusation-Haiti-Geography-Blame/...
- vilhelm_s 13y agoAs I understood it, there was a long standing debate about whether the AIDS epidemic spread from Haiti to the US or the other way around, but genetic evidence eventually found that it did come from Haiti: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/47/18566.long http://www.pnas.org/content/104/47/18566.long