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A video showing dozens of people marching toward the office of Haiti ’s prime minister elicited gasps from some viewers.
The protesters, who were HIV positive, did not conceal their faces in a country where the virus is still heavily stigmatized.
More than 150,000 people in Haiti have HIV or AIDS, according to official estimates, but nonprofits believe the number is much higher.
Experts say medications are dwindling at a time that gang violence and poverty are surging.
The medication controls the infection and allows many to have an average life expectancy.
Gang violence also could accelerate the rates of infection via rapes or physical violence as medication runs out.
At the New Hope Hospital run by Maklin in Haiti ’s northern region, shelves are running empty.
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