Haitian clinic weathers riots

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The Haitian HIV/AIDS linkurl:clinic;http://www.the-scientist.com/2008/3/1/42/101/ that I visited earlier this year and linkurl:wrote;http://www.the-scientist.com/2008/3/1/42/1/ about in the March issue of __The Scientist__ has resumed normal operations after linkurl:rioting;http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3740174.ece over rising food prices rocked the capital, Port-au-Prince, last week. When I heard of the turmoil in Haiti, I e-mailed Jean Pape, the director of the Haitian Study Group on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) clinic, and asked if everything was OK. "We had a social 'tsunami' last week with a lot of aftershocks the same week," Pape wrote. "Fortunately GHESKIO has not been affected." Pape did write, however, that specific threats had been made to destroy Quisqueya University, which sits right next door to GHESKIO and serves as a teaching and collaboration arm of the clinic. Quisqueya University was targeted because ousted Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis was one of the founders of the institution, explained Pape.

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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