Estimated Prevalence of Sickle Cell in Northern Haiti (Research AND Reports) (Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION Haiti is a small country in the northern Caribbean Sea that is often considered the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most economically disadvantaged countries in the world. (1-3) Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Haiti occupies the western third of the island and the Dominican Republic, the eastern two thirds. The Haitian people are of black African descent initially arriving in Haiti as slaves to the French in the 1600s. (4) Although the life expectancy of the average Haitian has risen from 49.6 years in the mid-1990s to 55 years in 2006, these data can be improved. (3)