HIV/AIDS is the greatest health crisis our world faces today. In Haiti, more than 200,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS – that's 3.8% of the population. Since the mid 1990s, Grace Children´s Hospital has provided medical support and counseling to patients living with HIV.

This is our last day in Haiti, and we spent it the way we like best-- with children. This morning we went to Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity orphanage just down the street from Grace Children’s Hospital. Oh my. About 150 infants and toddlers live there in rooms filled with cribs, one after the other after the other. Often parents will bring their children when they cannot feed them, but visit daily to hold and feed their children. We were there when parents were holding their infants, feeding them, sitting on the floor and rocking them in their arms.

What enormous contrasts:  Hotel Roi Christophe and Cite Soleil in the same day!  We have truly seen a lot.  The green and fertile valleys promise hope, which will be fulfilled in honest labor, tending of crops, and harvest.  The work of dedicated teachers in Cite Soleil concentrates on seeing a hopeful future for the students.  A nearly miraculous home-grown business, Pure Water for Haiti, which provides safe, affordable drinking water for the people, as well as jobs and even careers, expresses confidence and affirmation for the future of Haitians.  Such a day

HIV/AIDS is the greatest health crisis our world faces today. In Haiti, 5.6% of the population is suffering from HIV/AIDS. Since the mid 1990s, Grace Children's Hospital has been bringing medical and psycho-social support to patients living with HIV. In 2005, critical Anti-Retroviral (ARV) treatment services were also added, thanks to partnerships with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Center for Disease Control and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.