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U.S. cash pledge reflects growing impact of Caribbean AIDS crisis Financial Times The government of Haiti would have enough trouble meeting conditions for foreign relief, even without having to grapple with AIDS — a quiet but potent menace to the entire region. But about 30,000 people in Haiti die of AIDS each year — approximately twice the number of victims in the U.S., a nation with 30 times Haiti's population. In economically depressed areas of Port-au-Prince, the capital, one in every eight residents is estimated to be infected.
—Posted: June 17, 2003
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