Thanks to a long-standing campaign against Jamaica's traffic, attitudes towards road safety are improving. However, accidents still happen due to alcohol, drugs, and mobile phones.
The world's roads are still a place of carnage, with hair-raising instances of risky practices, unenforced laws and shoddy data. This quick survey of country facts also shows that progress is real.
The effort to decriminalize the anti-sodomy law in Belize faces organized resistance from religious groups.
As the world absorbs the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark rulings on gay rights Jamaican activists fight their own battle, challenging anti-sodomy laws and homophobia.
Listen to Micah Fink on the making of The Abominable Crime.
The story isn't over for Jamaica's LBGT community: Sodomy is still a crime and homophobia continues to be socially acceptable.
A month of milestones, victories, and violence in the global struggle for gay rights.
Photojournalist Mary Chind recalls the memorable beginning of a trip for American volunteers who traveled to rural Haiti with Community Health Initiative.
Volunteers from the Community Health Initiative are seen here in action during their week-long clinics in rural Haiti, where they meet with hundreds of villagers.
In the face of discrimination some people choose to make their HIV status publicly known. They set an example in their towns, helping to fight the sigma that exists.
Take a look at Des Moines Register photojournalist Mary Chind's images for a glimpse of life in rural Haiti.
Young Haitian community health workers, hired by the Iowa group, monitor public health in villages year round.
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