AIDS: The Final and Fatal Foreign Service Boondoggle

CDC and WHO were surely aware after advent of the AIDS epidemic that the Yaws eradication program would have provided ample opportunity for this virus to become a viable infection with the biotic potential to be spread among a promiscuous society.

Yaws is a common tropical disease caused by Treponema pertenue, the sister bacteria of syphilis, Treponema pallidum that was known to be, like Syphilis susceptible to easy cure with Penicillin. The Yaws program carried out in Haiti during the fifties was accomplished by injecting every man, woman and child in the countryside with penicillin, using multi-use needles, every few weeks until there was no further sign of this tropical filth-bred disease.

Then the following malaria eradication campaign, carried out by the Haitian Government with international assistance, in which I took part and which endured endlessly thereafter, again used multi-use devices to take blood samples, effectively mixing the blood of the entire population, which had just been subjected to months of lowered immunity from penicillin injections. Thus the blood of every man woman and child was again exposed to blood of hundreds and thousands of their neighbors over and over and over again, all year round, year after year.

The immunity, then, of an entire population of over a million souls was reduced allowing the unsuspected parasite, the HIV virus to reproduce and be transmitted.

Then, in the seventies, when the virus, still undetected, was widely present in the blood of Haitians, another factor entered in the scenario that caused the pandemic.

Homosexuals from Western cities, especially New York, San Francisco and Paris discovered Port Au Prince. They flocked to Haiti to take advantage of the desperate poverty and innocence of the Haitian peasants who having fled to the city from parched lands could be found begging in the streets of Port Au Prince: bam yon ti bagay, mon cher (Give me some little thing, my friend). Horribly, the one little thing that they did give them was--the opportunity to pass on that little virus which had dwelled benignly in African blood from the beginning of time but which had now multiplied a million times and which had been potentiated to become an insidious new dealer of horrible death. Then, they proceeded to pass on the deadly virus to their lovers and new sex partners and neighbors back home and eventually, with the help of the American Red Cross, to the rest of the world.