The obstructing role of USAID, their financing of IRI coup d'etat folks, their blocking of IDB humanitarian loans, the OAS’ role in bringing Haiti to foreign occupation certainly didn't help ameliorate Haiti's health crisis. And, most DEFINITELY, if the rate of HIV/AIDS infection has decreased in Haiti, it certainly isn't because of the GREAT help of the US and USAID, which had an embargo against humanitarian aid to Haiti and actively BLOCKED Haiti from enjoying any successes that were a result of work attributed to President Aristide and first Lady Mildred Trouillot Aristide. Despite US/USAID malfeasances, despite the USAID/US/IRI/NED's war against the Aristides and Haiti at that time and their thorough destruction of Haiti and Haiti's government from 2001 to 2004 (and through the present) Haiti made progress (http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/lavalasachievements.html) - progress USAID actively obstructed. The lowering of the rate of diseases in Haiti, achieved by Haitians when Haiti was self-ruled, would have most likely been further along, but for USAID historic and present malfeasances.
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There are two other recent items about USAID:
The first [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/01/africa/02malawi.php] deals with a record Malawian corn harvest. In this story the head of state decided to defy intense and universal pressure from donor countries and the World Bank, who insisted that fertilizer subsidies be cut back in favor of cash crops for export, and importing food with the profits.
Excerpt:
"Over the past 20 years, the World Bank and some rich nations Malawi depends on for aid have periodically pressed this small, landlocked country to adhere to free market policies and cut back or eliminate fertilizer subsidies, even as the United States and Europe extensively subsidized their own farmers. But after the 2005 harvest, the worst in a decade, Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawi's newly elected president, decided to follow what the West practiced, not what it preached."
The second [http://www.usaid.gov/stories/malawi/fp_malawi_fertilizer.html] also deals with that same record Malawian corn harvest. It is on the official web page of USAID.
Excerpt:
"Beginning in 2002, USAID began to revitalize fertilizer distribution in Malawi with support to the International Center for Fertility and Agricultural Development. USAID began by developing a network of ..."
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There are two other recent items about USAID:
The first [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/01/africa/02malawi.php] deals with a record Malawian corn harvest. In this story the head of state decided to defy intense and universal pressure from donor countries and the World Bank, who insisted that fertilizer subsidies be cut back in favor of cash crops for export, and importing food with the profits.
"Over the past 20 years, the World Bank and some rich nations Malawi depends on for aid have periodically pressed this small, landlocked country to adhere to free market policies and cut back or eliminate fertilizer subsidies, even as the United States and Europe extensively subsidized their own farmers. But after the 2005 harvest, the worst in a decade, Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawi's newly elected president, decided to follow what the West practiced, not what it preached."
The second [http://www.usaid.gov/stories/malawi/fp_malawi_fertilizer.html] also deals with that same record Malawian corn harvest. It is on the official web page of USAID.
Excerpt:
"Beginning in 2002, USAID began to revitalize fertilizer distribution in Malawi with support to the International Center for Fertility and Agricultural Development. USAID began by developing a network of ..."
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