Prostitution in Haiti

Prostitution in Haiti is illegal,[1][2] but the country used to be a premier destination in the 1970s for sex tourism for adults.

Haiti suffers from extreme poverty, with much of the population living on less than a dollar a day; those with no other resources often turn to prostitution.[3][3][4][5] Haiti has the highest cases of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean region estimated to be at about a 1.8 percent prevalence as of 2013.[6] An analysis of the causes of death, which started when hospital death certificates began to be collected in 1997, shows that AIDS was the leading cause of death in the country,[7] but as of 2010, this has been reduced to only a 1 percent cause of death, as disaster-related issues has been the leading cause at 66 percent.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Haiti". State.gov. 2006-03-08. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
  2. ↑ "HIV/AIDS: Latin America & Caribbean" (PDF). Sciencemag.org. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
  3. 1 2 "Americas | Fears over Haiti child 'abuse'". BBC News. 2006-11-30. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
  4. ↑ "Americas | Fears over Haiti child 'abuse'". BBC News. 2006-11-30. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
  5. ↑ Younge, Gary (2005-09-26). "Haitian children sold as cheap labourers and prostitutes for little more than £50 | World news". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
  6. ↑ "Caribbean HIV & AIDS Statistics".
  7. ↑ http://www.unfpa.org/hiv/gyp/profiles/haiti.htm
  8. ↑ "CDC in Haiti" (PDF). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2014.


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