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Recommended HLLN Links: HLLN Recommended Links on the Origins of Aids/HIV www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed1.html#origin Possible Media Bias on coverage of Gilbert/Worobey report www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed1.html#media Haitians May Sue Over HIV Research Claim www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed4.html#sue World famous Aids/HIV scholar, Luc Montagnier, rejects Worobey’s theory www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed5.html#sum Contents – Commentary: Haiti, the international scapegoat! by Jean H. Charles, Nov. 23, 2007, Caribbean Net News |www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed4.html#heros – Formation d’un task force de médecins pour démonter la thèse d’un professeur américain selon laquelle le sida aurait ete introduit aux etas-Uuis par des haïtiens | www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed5.html#taskforce Link: – World famous expert on the Aid/HIV virus, the honorable professor, Luc Montagnier, rejects the results of “the study” of Michael Worobey according to which the Aids pandemic arrived in the United States through a Haitian migrant (AHP – in French) www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed5.html#montagnier HLLN ‘s English summary of this AHP article: www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed5.html#sum Commentary: Haiti, the International Scapegoat! By Jean H Charles, Caribbean Net News ( caribbeannetnews.com ) Published on Friday, November 23, 2007 www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-4689—6-6—.html also posted at: www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed4.html#heros Some twenty years ago, the US Food and Drug Administration Service, as well as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), listed the Haitian people as suis generis carriers of the AIDS virus. This ill-conceived classification angered the Haitian Community in the United States to the bone. I was at that time, Assistant Dean of Students at the City College of the City University of New York. I called in a group of Haitian student leaders, they included Gilbert Hyppolite, Mario Jean, and Mildred Trouillot “Aristide”. We planned together a strategy to organize a march to demonstrate against that ruling. The movement was taken over by the larger community. The rest was history. *(Photo) Jean H Charles MSW, JD is Executive Director of AINDOH Inc a non profit organization dedicated to build a kinder and gentle Caribbean zone for all. He can be reached at: jeanhcharles@aol.com * www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed4.html#heros On April 20, 1990, some three hundred thousand Haitians and their American and Caribbean friends marched from Brooklyn to City Hall and Battery Park through the Brooklyn Bridge in a frenzy that is still felt today with the recall of the memory. The CDC retreated from that classification the same evening, advising the world that some Americans, like some Haitians or Jamaicans or Trinidadians might be the victims of a virus that can be contacted when sexual relations occurred with a person who was already an AIDS carrier. Some twenty years later, Dr Michael Worobey of Arizona State University and Dr Arthur Pichenik came with a new twist to the old story. Patient zero, the first AIDS carrier might have been a Haitian resident, who had acquired the virus in the Congo, Africa. This so called scientific finding appears on its face without foundation. These empirical and anecdotal observations will illuminate the readers. During the 1960s, the United Nations contracted a legion of Haitian professionals including doctors, teachers and lawyers to contribute to the nation building process in Congo after its independence from Belgium. When the United Nations contract expired some few years later, those Haitian professionals went to the province of Quebec in Canada to repeat the pioneering engagement of education and development. In a recent book “Those Quebecois who came from Haiti,” edited by Samuel Pierre (International Press Polytechnique, 2007), the story, the life and the contribution of those heroes are narrated in a collection of tributes “for those who are an inspiration for the citizens of the world who believe in the future possibility of a happy society for all”. This quotation by Jean Charest, the Prime Minister of Quebec, sets apart the men and women that Quebec cannot forget neither in name, nor in heart, not in actions. Who they are, what they did is an eloquent example of engagement and determination! Now at the age of retreat, those pioneers, healthy and wealthy are enjoying a well deserved retirement in Boca Raton Florida or in Port au Prince Haiti with a fat retiree check emanated from two continents. Yet the good American professors Worobey and Pichenik have chosen, to use the term of Dr Paul Farmer of Harvard University to malign and slender on a base of a grand claim those missionaries of civilization. Quoting Luc Montaigne, the Thomas Edison of AIDS research, this finding is without foundation. The Haitians who came to Quebec from Africa had no signs of the AIDS virus. I will add that the Haitian ethos patterned after the French culture is inhospitable to any group of people who are disease carriers. The grapevine and the rumor would have done its best to contribute to the shunning of those individuals. There is no scintilla of evidence that even a minority of those who came back from Congo was dying en masse of the AIDS virus. On the other side, I know personally of a prominent activist American who died around 1973, with the symptoms that are now attributed to AIDS. He was fond of women, and he traveled often to Africa, the rumor then; there was a strange disease that could be contacted by those who are too prolific with the other sex. In Haiti, with the help of good doctors and institutions like Dr J.W. Pape of Cornell University, Dr Paul Farmer of Harvard University as well as Doctors without Borders, the country has been cited in international conference on AIDS as a pioneer in the fight and the containment of the disease. From a peak of 6% in 2002, the AIDS population has been reduced to 2% in 2006 in Haiti. In addition, the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation would have crumbled in a few weeks but the devotion and the professionalism of a hundred Haitian doctors and thousands of Haitian nurses who contribute day in and day out, representing the largest contingent of black professionals in the city hospitals. We are expecting that Michael Worobey and his colleagues will follow the path of Dr William Darrow who repudiated his own study of the theory of the 4 H (homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, Haitians). In the meantime, the harm has been spread throughout. Haiti, the pioneer of black emancipation has to endure from time to time, the scourge of those who resent the fact that this black nation has disturbed and dismantled the world order of slavery. This gallant nation shall continue its mission of making this world a better one for all. Like the Jews, despised by some but respected for the great universities, the zoos, the museums, the philharmonics orchestras and the cultural institutions they have sponsored wherever they have passed through, the Haitian people will have to content themselves with this God principle: To those of you I have trusted the task of illuminating this world, I did not promise an easy life on this earth. Formation d’un task force de médecins pour démonter la thèse d’un professeur américain selon laquelle le sida aurait ete introduit aux etas-Uuis par des haïtiens | www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed5.html#taskforce Port-au-Prince, le 19 novembre 2007 (AHP) Le Directeur général du Ministère de la santé publique, le Dr Gabriel Timothée a annoncé lundi la formation d’un Task-Force , composé d’experts ayant pour mission de faire des recherches en vue d’aboutir à des éléments susceptibles de permettre d’opposer un démenti aux résultats d’une étude que le professeur américain Michaël Worobey affirme avoir menée et selon lesquels, le Sida serait introduit aux Etats-Unis par des haïtiens venus de l’Afrique Centrale. Le Task-Force se compose de médecins de l’Association Médicale Haïtienne, de médecins haïtiens vivant à l’étranger, et de ceux issus de plusieurs institutions partenaires du ministère, a-t-il précisé. Seules des données scientifiques peuvent aider à répondre à une étude scientifique, a dit le Dr Timothée, soulignant que certains arguments mettent en cause les données de M. Worobey. Selon lui, l’échantillon de 5% d’haïtiens utilisé par l’expert dans le cadre de son étude de 1982 à 1983, n’est pas fiable et ses déclarations ne tiennent pas sur les plans historique et migratoire . Worobey affirme que les haïtiens incriminés revenaient d’exil après la chute des Duvaliers en 1986. Le docteur Thimothée, a souligné que des cas de Sida avaient déjà été enregistrés presque partout dans le monde et un nombre considérable d’africains vivaient déjà aux Etats-Unis. au cours la période évoquée par Worobey. Il a également fait remarquer que les haïtiens en question, avant de rentrer en Haïti, s’étaient rendus d’abord en Europe, un continent infecté par le Sida, bien longtemps après les Etats-Unis. Une lettre sera adressée sous peu à des experts américains avec qui le MSPP entretient de bons rapports en vue d’un certain soutien à l’équipe locale, dans le cadre de ses recherches, a fait savoir Dr Timothée. Au cas où les données du scientifique américain se révèlent fausses, le gouvernement haïtien intentera une poursuite judiciaire contre lui, a annoncé le ddirecteur géneral du ministère de la santé publique. L’un des experts mondiaux dans la recherche sur la pandémie du sida, le pofesseur Luc Montagnier avait affirmé la semaine dernière que le virus du syndrome immuno déficience acquise pourrait avoir été introduit en Haïti par le biais de touristes. Participant à une conférence à l’Université de Granada en Espagne, le professeur avait rejeté ainsi la thèse avancée par le professeur Michael Worobey de l’Université d’Arizona. “ Il est probable qu’un touriste américain de passage en Haïti ait contaminé des membres de la population, au lieu du phénomène inverse”, avait-il encore souligné Luc Montagnier. Les premiers cas de personnes infectées du Sida ont été détectées aux Etats-Unis en 1981 parmi la comunauuté homosexuelle. AHP 19 novembre 2007 1:20 PM Forwarded by Ezili’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network Racism Masquerades as Science by Jafrikayiti, Nov. 1, 2007 www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed.html#defame “Associations between Haitians and infectious disease are currently particularly strong in the U.S. popular press. This, too, is nothing new. Writing in 1920, National Geographic journalists noted that “it is estimated that 87 percent of the entire population were infected with contagious diseases.” AIDS is merely the most recent in a long series of plagues attributed to Haiti. In the sixteenth century, Europeans insisted that syphilis originated n Haiti, and was brought back by Columbus’ sailors. (the converse now appears to have been the case.)”Excerpted from: The Uses of Haiti (1994, updated 2005) —by Paul Farmer www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed.html#farmer “….Another common practice among European explorers was to give “smallpox blankets” to the Indians. Since smallpox was unknown on this continent prior to the arrival of the Europeans, Native Americans did not have any natural immunity to the disease so smallpox would effectively wipe out entire villages with very little effort required by the Europeans… Most of the Wampanoag had died from the smallpox epidemic so when the Pilgrims arrived they found well-cleared fields which they claimed for their own. A Puritan colonist, quoted by Harvard University’s Perry Miller, praised the plague that had wiped out the Indians for it was “the wonderful preparation of the Lord Jesus Christ, by his providence for his people’s abode in the Western world.” Historians have since speculated endlessly on why the woods in the region resembled a park to the disembarking Pilgrims in 1620. The reason should have been obvious: hundreds, if not thousands, of people had lived there just five years before. In less than three generations the settlers would turn all of New England into a charnel house for Native Americans, and fire the economic engines of slavery throughout English-speaking America. Plymouth Rock is the place where the nightmare truly began. (The Black Commentator, The History of Thanksgiving) ************* Coincidence or Intentional? – Is there an International plan to depopulate and exterminate a large portion of Haiti’s population? by Ezili Dantò, November 4, 2006 | www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/conspiracy.html#neocolon See also Vaccinate Haiti! and Defamed! www.margueritelaurent.com/press Defamed! – Page 1, – Page 2, Pg. 3 and Pg. 4 Warning (Please listen): A Genocide by Vaccination? Editorial – Occupied Haiti To be Vaccinated ! Franklin Ellis, Nov. 11, 2007 Fanmi Lavalas Emission (Mp3 – 12:41| in French) www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/editoryalfranklin11-11-07.mp3 Haïti/Propagation du Sida : Les erreurs du professeur Michael Worobey www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article6579 |
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