ABSTRACT
Over the course of the past ten years, important work regarding HIV transmission has been conducted in urban Haiti. There has been a dearth, however, of studies conducted in rural Haiti. This is significant, because Haiti, a country of well over six million inhabitants, is generally considered to be a substantially rural nation.1 As the ties that link rural and urban Haiti are economically and affectively strong, a brief review of studies from urban Haiti is a useful prolegomenon to a consideration of HIV transmission in rural areas. Together, insights from studies in both places enhance our understanding of HIV infection not just in Haiti, but in many settings where poverty seems to favour rapid sexual spread of HIV.
