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Tue Dec 2, 7:02 PM ET

Dr. Rudi Moise, a Trustee of the University of Miami and also president of its alumni association, talks with Sonson St. Louis, 60, who, along with his entire family, once suffered from tuberculosis, as University of Miami President and former US Secretary of Health and Human Services ( color=#0000ff news - color=#0000ff web sites) (1993-2001) Donna Shalala, center in the orange shirt, and Dr. Barth Green, a professor at the university's medical school and founder of Project Medishare, look on during a visit to learn about the collaborative program between the university, Partners in Health, Project Medishare and others in Thomonde, Haiti, on Tuesday, December 2, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)

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Tue Dec 2, 7:00 PM ET

University of Miami President and former US Secretary of Health and Human Services ( color=#0000ff news - color=#0000ff web sites) (1993-2001) Donna Shalala, left in the orange shirt, looks at the forms community health workers in Thomonde, Haiti, have filled out during a census during a visit she and a delegation made to learn about the collaborative program between the university, Partners in Health, Project Medishare and others on Tuesday, December 2, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)

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Tue Dec 2, 6:59 PM ET

University of Miami President and former US Secretary of Health and Human Services ( color=#0000ff news - color=#0000ff web sites) (1993-2001) Donna Shalala, smiles as she walks by the student band in the yard of the Bon Sauveur School, part of the Bon Sauveur Hospital compound in Cange, Haiti, as she and a delegation she led was being welcomed at the hospital at the beginning of their two-day visit to learn about the collaborative program between the university, Partners in Health, Project Medishare and others on Tuesday, December 2, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)

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Tue Dec 2, 6:17 PM ET

University of Miami President Donna Shalala, right, former US Secretary of Health and Human Services ( color=#0000ff news - color=#0000ff web sites) (1993-2001), chats with children outside a clsed government agricultural building the university, Partners in Health, Project Medishare and others hope to turn into a hospital and lab in Thomonde, Haiti, on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)

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Tue Dec 2, 6:14 PM ET

University of Miami President Donna Shalala, right, former US Secretary of Health and Human Services ( color=#0000ff news - color=#0000ff web sites) (1993-2001), chats with Dr. John Clarkson, Dean of the University of Miami Medical School, on their way to visit an entire family who once had tuberculosis and are now cured due to a collaborative program of the university, Partners in Health, Project Medishare and the Haitian government in Thomonde, Haiti, on Tuesday, December 2, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)

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Mon Dec 1, 9:05 PM ET A young resident of Boukan Carre, near Las Cahobas, Haiti, wears a homemade headband which says 'USA' and has a condom under it as she sings a song about how to prevent AIDS ( color=#0000ff news - color=#0000ff web sites) during a contest of AIDS awareness songs at a gathering organized by the Partners in Health (Zanmi La Sante) a health center run to boost awareness about HIV ( color=#0000ff news - color=#0000ff web sites) and stress the importance of not stigmatizing HIV-positive patients, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, International AIDS Day. Haiti has a 6 percent HIV-positive rate, the highest outside sub-Saharan Africa. (AP Photo/Daniel

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Mon Dec 1, 9:00 PM ET

Children in Boukan Carre, near Las Cahobas, Haiti, watch a contest of AIDS ( color=#0000ff news - color=#0000ff web sites) awareness songs at a gathering organized by the Partners in Health (Zanmi La Sante) a health center run to boost awareness about HIV ( color=#0000ff news - color=#0000ff web sites) and stress the importance of not stigmatizing HIV-positive patients, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, International AIDS Day. The slogan on the water reservoir the children are using as a bench reads: 'Youth of Boukan Carre, we'll beat AIDS.' (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)

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Mon Dec 1, 8:42 PM ET

Dr. Roland Desire, left, head the tuberculosis, AIDS ( color=#0000ff news - color=#0000ff web sites) and sexually transmitted disease programs at the Las Cahobas Health Center, run by the US-based Partners in Health and the Haitian health ministry, walks with Leone Louis, 27, right, and her son Franklin, 3, in the middle, in Flande, Haiti, near Las Cahobas, during a visit Desire made to check on Leone Louis, who is HIV ( color=#0000ff news - color=#0000ff web sites)-positive and is taking anti-retrovirals, on Monday, December 1, 2003, International AIDS Day. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)

Amber;  Thanks for the great PICS.  I used to attack Donna Shalala's extreme left views during her days in the Clinton administration, but I have always liked her as a person and I respect her tenacity.

It is sad about that little boy, Friscot Jean, the 6 year with AIDS.  Once HIV progresses to full blown AIDS, the MEDS are no longer as efficient.

kreyolbro@aol.com

that is a very great job of them and one day they will be thanks for every think

KB---

I really miss home... I'm having withdrawls and craving some good Mangos. 

Jan 13th will be a year sense I've been in Haiti. I'm going to have to move closer. 11 hours of flight isn't inticing at all.