You can learn more about the batyes and HIV/AIDS here in Jon Cohen's article in Science magazine, or here in a Human Rights Watch photo essay. Below, some of the women I met.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Bateyes
A few years ago, I spent time in the Dominican Republic working to increase access to HIV/AIDS treatment for poor Haitians living on former sugar caning plantations, called Bateyes. The poverty there rivaled poverty I have seen in much less touristed-countries. But thats really true of much of the Caribbean.
You can learn more about the batyes and HIV/AIDS here in Jon Cohen's article in Science magazine, or here in a Human Rights Watch photo essay. Below, some of the women I met.
You can learn more about the batyes and HIV/AIDS here in Jon Cohen's article in Science magazine, or here in a Human Rights Watch photo essay. Below, some of the women I met.
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