AIDS therapy found viable in Haiti in spite of turmoil
The first large-scale AIDS drug study in Haiti showed significant increases in survival, in spite of a political upheaval typical of poorer nations.
By JACOB GOLDSTEIN, jgoldstein@herald.com
Antiretroviral drugs have achieved spectacular success in prolonging the lives of Americans with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. But can they work equally well in a country with wretched poverty, social unrest, political upheaval and a dearth of doctors and medical clinics?

• Haitian migrant drowns off coast
  BY ROCHELLE E.B. GILKEN, Palm Beach Post
  A Haitian woman got off a smuggling boat in the dead of night and tried to swim in rough waters to the Manalapan shore, engulfed in darkness except for an eight-foot lighted replica of the Statue of Liberty.
  
• Aid arriving with a hip-hop beat
  BY ALFRED DE MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press
  U.N. peacekeepers venture into Cité Soleil with automatic weapons and armored personnel carriers. Haitian police, fearful of well-armed gangs, avoid the dusty streets of the seaside slum altogether.
  
• Haitian informer gets 3 years
  BY JAY WEAVER, jweaver@herald.com
  Oriel Jean, the former security chief for ex-President of Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was sentenced Friday to just three years in prison for his role in helping drug traffickers move tons of Colombian cocaine through Haiti to the United States.
  
• OAS leader confident of election timetable
  The head of the Organization of American States, José Miguel Insulza, said Thursday he's confident that elections in Haiti will put a new president in office by a constitutional deadline of Feb. 7.