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-- Haiti has the highest HIV/AIDs incidence outside of sub-Sararan Africa;
-- the World Bank ranks Haiti lowest in the hemisphere on sanitation, nutrition and available health services with only 25 doctors and 11 nurses per 100,000 population, and most rural areas are on their own;
-- well over half the population is food insecure and most Haitian children are undersized from malnutrition;
-- less than half have access to safe drinking water;
-- nearly 40% of Haitian children don't attend school;
-- fewer than 20% of Haitians aged 15 or over are literate;
-- an elite 5% of the population owns 75% of the arable land,
-- 5% control the economy, media, universities, professions, and Hatian politics; and
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