Protecting HIV-Positive Mothers and Their Children After the Quake in Haiti

by Gary Kopycinski on March 3, 2010

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–3 March 2010 – Jeanne (not her real name) sat on a mattress in her tent in a makeshift settlement for displaced people that has sprung up in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. As the afternoon sun burned through the plastic walls of the tent, she told her story.

Jeanne is 28 years old, HIV-positive and six months pregnant. On 12 January, the day a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, she was walking home from the market. Her…