For today I would like to tell you about a book that I read some years ago called AIDS and ACCUSATION: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (1992). The book was written by a man named Dr. Paul Farmer. Farmer is a medical doctor and an anthropologist who lived and worked in Haiti for many years during the height of Haiti's AIDS pandemic. The book however is not so much about the suffering in Haiti but about the history of Haiti and the country's links to Europe and the USA and Canada. AIDS and ACCUSATION is well-written and well-researched and provides a lot of history about this Caribbean nation.
In addition to writing this book and others, Paul Farmer has founded an organization called "Partners in Health." This medical/aid organization works in various troubled parts of the world, and has been helping out in Haiti for the past 20 years. Of course, they are there now too. I have placed a link to this organization on the page, but will post it here too: http://www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti
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