A public service message about AIDS is posted on the wall outside the clinic for women at the Zanmi Lasante complex in rural Cange, Haiti. (Rick Loomis / LAT)
Estencia Gracia Guerrier gives AIDS medication to Adeline Merson, 37, inside Merson’s two-room home in Cange, Haiti. (Rick Loomis / LAT)
Health workers leave a home in Cange, Haiti, after delivering AIDS medication to a teenage girl. (Rick Loomis / LAT)
Paul Joseph, 54, who has AIDS, resides at a clinic in the village of Cange, where antiretroviral drugs are administered. (Rick Loomis / LAT)
Health workers walk the dirt paths of Cange to take AIDS medication to patients. About 700 workers in Haiti make such trips daily as part of a program created by physician Paul Farmer. (Rick Loomis / LAT)
Newly built coffins await use in Port-au-Prince, Haitis capital. More than 100 Haitians die of AIDS daily, according to a U.S.-based group. (Rick Loomis / LAT)
“What I want to do is to get rid of that prejudice and to show that normal people have AIDS too,” says Liony Accelus, 36, an AIDS activist who is the subject of a documentary on the disease. (Rick Loomis / LAT)
Chenet Poteau gives her daughter Sheila a dose of AIDS medication outside their home in Cange. Both mother and daughter are infected. (Rick Loomis / LAT)
A lab technician at the clinic in Boukancarre, Haiti, tests a patient’s blood for HIV. Workers at the newly-opened clinic sees AIDS patients on a daily basis. (Rick Loomis / LAT)
