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Aids and Accusation (Haiti and the Geography of Blame)

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Does the scientific “theory” that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.
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Haitians 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/...

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As 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
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