Sarah Fort

Stories by Sarah Fort

A repugnant choice

In dealing with Uzbek dictator, U.S. buys access to air field — even after eviction.

May 31, 2007

Billions in aid, with no accountability

Pakistan receives the most post-9/11 U.S. military funding, yet has failed to ferret out al Qaeda, Taliban leaders.

May 31, 2007

Fatal error: how Bush’s policy endangers lives

Once again, ideology trumps good science and public health policy as Bush's global AIDS plan ignores reality and endangers women's lives.

Nov 30, 2006

Ethalem Bekele, a volunteer recruited by Pathfinder International to teach family planning in rural Arsi Negelle, carved a wooden phallus to demonstrate correct condom use

‘Not enough money is going to treatment and prevention for younger Haitians’

We speak with Jean-Saurel Beaujour, the founder Haiti's first AIDS community advocacy group.

Nov 30, 2006

With few resources, a church named Redemption takes on poverty, hunger and other staggering causes in Haiti

\The Cité de Dieu community is one of many that have fallen off the radar screens of governmental and nongovernmental organization programs. The one organization still helping to feed the community is a neighborhood church named Redemption.

Nov 30, 2006

HIV in Haiti is spread by violence – and little is done to prevent attacks

HAITI: Dieula sits in a circle of women on the tiled floor of a dimly lit room here, discussing the sexual violence that makes HIV infection an ever-present danger for Haitian women.

Nov 30, 2006

‘Violence against women in Haiti has gotten worse’

HAITI: Dr. Catherine Maternowska is an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco in the departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Anthropology, History and Social Medicine.

Nov 30, 2006

Modern health care groups collaborate with voodoo priests to help identify the HIV-positive

HAITI: Bresa Belizaire works out of a wood hut with a raked-dirt floor. Under a wooden chair in the corner are bottles of medicine and human bones. Belizaire is a voodoo priest, or "houngan" in Creole, in Thomonde, Haiti, an impoverished area in the center of the country.

Nov 30, 2006

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