HIV Hidden Behind Prison Walls
With HIV widespread in prisons, Dr. John May travels back and forth from the U.S. to treat infected inmates in Haiti.
With HIV widespread in prisons, Dr. John May travels back and forth from the U.S. to treat infected inmates in Haiti.
CANGE, Haiti — Trucks teeter perilously as they climb the rutted and rock-strewn road between Port-au- Prince and Cange, jolting the people who travel unsheltered on their cargo.
Under the best conditions, it is a three-hour journey of lurching, halting and downpours.
It was an especially hard trek for a frail and feverish 35-year-old woman named Benita, who was put atop a truck one day in August after seven months of growing weaker while the pain in her belly grew stronger.
Experts at the International AIDS Society Conference discuss the future of treating and preventing the HIV virus.
Sex workers in the Dominican Republic fight against the growing rate of HIV and AIDS among them through vaccine trials and sex education.
Aired on Foreign Exchange the week of November 16, 2007.
As part of its special coverage on the earthquake tragedy in Haiti, ABC's 20/20 aired footage from Carmen Russell and Dane Liu's documentary, "Restaveks: Child Slaves of Haiti" 1/15/2010 at 10pm.