U.S. National Institutes of Health

Protest over U.S. Food and Drug Administration ban on Haitian blood donations, Brooklyn, New York, April 20, 1990

Courtesy AP/Gerald Herbert

In 1990, Haitian-American organizations led a march of tens of thousands of people to protest the stigma and discrimination caused when the U.S. government wrongly labeled Haitian national origin as a risk factor for HIV infection.

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