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“I thought the crossing was the worst thing in my life,” she said, sitting on the front step of her home in a village outside of Puebla. “We saw human bones and clothes in the desert. There were robbers there, who would rape the girls and take all the money they could. I thought that had to be worst. Now, I have this.”
-- Marc Lacey, "Mexican Migrants Carry H.I.V. Home", in The New York Times
It was thought that any transmission of disease through Mexican migrants would be from Mexico to here, but it looks like the U.S. is more of the contaminant when it comes to AIDS:
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“I thought the crossing was the worst thing in my life,” she said, sitting on the front step of her home in a village outside of Puebla. “We saw human bones and clothes in the desert. There were robbers there, who would rape the girls and take all the money they could. I thought that had to be worst. Now, I have this.”
-- Marc Lacey, "Mexican Migrants Carry H.I.V. Home", in The New York Times
It was thought that any transmission of disease through Mexican migrants would be from Mexico to here, but it looks like the U.S. is more of the contaminant when it comes to AIDS:
Migrant workers like him go to the United States with dreams of new prosperity, hoping to bring back dollars. But some are bringing back something else as well, H.I.V. and AIDS, which they are spreading in the rural parts of Mexico least prepared to handle the epidemic.
