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Briefing on Haiti, No 8, December 2002
THE SITUATION OF HAITI’S STREET CHILDREN 1:DIAGNOSIS OF A LARGE- SCALE PROBLEM
By: Nicole Siméon, Journalist
They are about 100 million throughout the world, among whom at least 40 million in Latin America. In Haiti, the phenomenon of street children forms a real social challenge. Seen initially in the second half of 1980s, the present magnitude of the issue brings up many questions. From the few street children noticed during the 1970s, their number has gone up considerably.
People who work for the reintegration of street children agree that the reasons that street children are nowadays so massively present, are complex. Read more ...
Nicole Siméon, Journalist.
Léone, Danise, Nadine, Carline and Nadège are young ladies today. They try to regain a normal life after they have lined for several years in the street. Thanks to the intervention of CAFA (Centre d’Action Familiale) founded in July 1996 by Madam Kettlie Marseille, they said goodbye to this way of life.
As best they can, they have been taken into care by the programmes of CAFA. But, how long will we be there, they wonder? For adults and, mothers for two ( 2 ) of them, they no longer can be dependent on the scanty budget of CAFA. Divided between the relief to leave the street and the apprehension about a future which is not quite certain, these five (5) young ladies talk about their past in the street, the reasons why they lived there and also they talk about their hope.
Léone is eighteen (18) years old now : I found myself in the street because I accepted to be convainced by a friend of mine when I was ten ( 10 ) years old at that time. Read more ...
Briefing on Haiti, No 6, July 2002
THE RIGHT TO LIFE FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS IN HAITI
By: Roosevelt Jean-François, Journalist and member of the Centre for Communication on AIDS (CECOSIDA)
The provision of care, including access to medical care, is a serious challenge for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Haiti. The reasons for this are particularly related to the economic situation of the country, which suffers from acute unemployment and effects of the contraction of the global economy during the recent years, according to trends and figures published by the Haitian Institute of Statistics and Informatics.
However, in addition to medicines and the provision of direct care, several experts think that the best assistance lies in the social reintegration of the infected person. Read more ...