Jamaicas battle against AIDS fought in the shadows

Jamaica may be on the very of losing its battle against the AIDS epidemic because of deeply entrenched anti-gay attitudes and laws.
Correspondent Lisa Biagiotti, producer Micah Fink and director of photographer Gabrielle Weiss report from the front lines of Jamaicas battle against HIV and AIDS, a war waged in the shadows.

http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/09/22/jamaicas-battle-against-aids-fought-in-...

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News & Politics

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• AIDS
• disease
• Gabrielle Weiss
• gay
• health
• Health of Nations
• HIV
• homophobia
• Jamaica
• Lisa Biagiotti
• Micah Fink
• Signature Story
• stigma

[BonMache123]

Thanks for this report. I wish your program could feature some other Caribbean islands with the same AIDS and HIV issues. Great Job!

[ancientkiki]

hiv was created in Fort Mckinnley,maine

[eviltreemonster]

All the haters are on the down low.

[sexymiyoki]

@neilon1982

shut up you stupid bitch! clearly once your a human being your vulnerable to this desease, AIDS does not give a fuck whether your gay or straight ! Even if AIDS was a gay desease it would be necessary to address the issue in the interest of the wider society.

[commongroundpolitics]

Looking for sympathy? Perhaps if Jamaica stopped treating gay people no better than Hitler did, they wouldn't feel a need to leave their home country. Hatred kills - clearly!

[commongroundpolitics]

For the uneducated and/or deranged: HIV is primarily transmitted through unprotected vaginal or anal sex, sharing needles during intravenous drug use, and tranfusing contaminated blood. The sexual orientation of the infected person is 100% irrelevant.

[crishomar7]

are u fucking stupid....u stupid queer........man to man sex causes aids.....even if the jamaican public becomes more tolerable of ur nasty behaviour (battyman) how is that gonna stop these fish from spreading the virus????????

[neilon1982]

If these homosexuals are looking sympathy they need to migrate to where accepts and loves them.

They too can use condoms, its not as if they ask you if a man or woman they want it to use on.

Very poor excuse for the failure of the AIDS campaign.

The gays need to stop f******women and spread dem nastiness.

[eviltreemonster]

This shit is right out of order.

[commongroundpolitics]

Excellent report. Thanks for preparing it. Kudos to those people featured in the video who are valiantly attempting to address this problem.

[commongroundpolitics]

This is really sad. And so many young lives will be ruined as a result. Jamaica is extremely hostile to gay people. No wonder the HIV rate is out of control.