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BLANCHARD, Haiti - When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin. Muzi.com News 10091197-1 (muzi.com)
In the early 1980s, experts thought AIDS could wipe out a third of Haiti's population. Instead, the country's HIV infection rate stayed in the single digits, then plummeted.
When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin. Fifteen years later, she walks around her two-room concrete house on Haiti's central plateau, watching her four children play under the plantain trees.
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When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin.
In the early 1980s, when the strange and terrifying disease, AIDs, showed up in the US among migrants who had escaped Haiti's dictatorship, experts thought it could wipe out a third of the country's population.
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