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When france pay back all of the money plus interest to Haiti then Haitians should consider learning to speak their language because we will then have some money to pay for the lessons.

I went to school in Haiti were french is primary and I've never made a dime I took "anglais" as a third language and I earned over a million dollars in assets with my hard working hands "not in france"

Many of french intellectuals in Haiti wants a government jobs mainly so they can rip off the creol speaking people blind without laboring for it and I know many of them.

And so often they believe that they are above everyone else of the human race because they spoke "french" like you

Just like aristide think of himself being "god" for speaking french etc but yet history will judge his presidency wisdom of leadership and not how many languages he spoked.

Look at rene preval he is a college etc plus his french read and write but yet lack of moral and competency to lead the nation.

Under rene preval Haiti is marching on "Progress" for the french open gay...

to enjoy Haiti.

Newsday.com
Openly gay marchers make first-ever appearance at World AIDS Day rally in Haiti
By JONATHAN M. KATZ

"Associated Press Writer

8:14 PM EST, November 30, 2008

ST. MARC, Haiti (AP) _ A dozen men in T-shirts declaring "I am gay" and "I am living with HIV/AIDS" marched with hundreds of other demonstrators through a Haitian city on Sunday in what organizers called the Caribbean nation's first openly gay march.

The march, held a day ahead of World AIDS Day in the western city of St. Marc, called for better prevention and treatment in a country long plagued by the virus.

Organizers said they hoped the march will break barriers to reach more HIV-positive people and gay men with programs that have helped decrease the country's infection rate by two-thirds in the last decade.

"They suffer double the stigma and double the discrimination," said Esther Boucicault Stanislas, a leading activist known as the first person in Haiti to publicly declare that she was HIV-positive after her husband died of AIDS in the early 1990s.

About 500 participants that included health ministry officials and workers with United Nations programs followed a speaker-truck through the dusty city, chanting and carrying banners en route to the mayor's office.

No officials received them.

AIDS awareness marches have taken place before in Haiti, but Boucicault and organizers with New York-based AIDS service organization Housing Works called this one the first march to include an openly gay group in Haiti.

The nation of 9 million remains the most affected by HIV in the Caribbean, itself the region with the highest infection rate outside Sub-Saharan Africa.

Haiti has long fought stigmatization and discrimination after its migrants were some of the first AIDS cases identified in the United States.

Unfounded beliefs that Haitians caused the epidemic helped decimate the country's tourism industry.

The country has since been a success story, with its HIV infection rate falling from 5.9 percent in 1996 to 2.2 percent today -- due in part to programs like the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which has given Haiti more than $320 million since 2004. The deaths of people with HIV also contributed to the decline.

But gay men remain at risk because they hide from social programs due to prejudice and harassment, despite making up one-tenth of reported HIV cases in the Caribbean, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS reported.

In socially conservative Haiti, discrimination runs especially deep.

Debate over Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis' nomination earlier this year centered almost entirely on rumors that she was a lesbian, with lawmakers standing up one after another to denounce her as immoral.

She was approved for the post only after agreeing to read a statement on Haitian radio that the rumors were defamatory and untrue.

On Sunday, opposition was muted to the small contingent wearing white T-shirts bearing the word "masisi" -- a Haitian Creole slur for gay men that the marchers celebrated and chanted as their own"

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Babaco Pampidous, December 1 2008, 6:33 PM

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