AIDS & Haiti - Discourses on Origin, Stigma, and Blame

Abstract: The article focuses on the scientific discourse on the origin of AIDS and the distribution of the disease and the HI virus between the United States (US) and Haiti. After the syndrome later called AIDS had first been described in 1981, several risk groups were named by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US, among them recent Haitian immigrants to the US. As the scientific world developed theories on the origin of the new disease - and, after its discovery, the HI virus - members of the scientific community deemed a spread from Haiti to the US possible. Others considered a distribution vice versa more likely, namely that the disease might have moved from the US to Haiti. This study analyses the scientific discourse in mostly medical publications released between the years 1982 and 2016. They include research papers, letters to the editor in medical journals, anthologies or monographs, and publications of the CDC. It addresses not only the way the disease’s or

Object Details

• Alternative title: AIDS & Haiti - Diskurse über Ursprung, Stigma und Schuldzuweisung
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: AIDS & Haiti - Discourses on Origin, Stigma, and Blame ; number:33 ; year:2021 ; pages:128-146 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Historical social research / Supplement. Supplement ; Heft 33 (2021), 128-146

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Geschichte

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2021
• Creator: Fuchs, Hannah ; Leven, Karl-Heinz

Further information

• DOI: 10.12759/hsr.suppl.33.2021.128-146
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022101517191842936408
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 15.08.2025, 7:37 AM CEST