(28 May 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: PART NO ACCESS HAITI
RADIO TELE GINEN HANDOUT – NO ACCESS HAITI
ARCHIVE: Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 19 May 2025
1. Various of people protesting shortage of medication
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 27 May 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Louis Gérald Gilles, Member of the Transitional Presidential Council of Haiti: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT3++
“We want the population to know that we will get medicine and there will never be a shortage of stock in the country. This will not happen because there will be a shortage of antiretroviral stocks in the country. We are exploring many avenues for solutions.”
RADIO TELE GINEN HANDOUT – NO ACCESS HAITI
ARCHIVE: Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 19 May 2025
3. Various of people protesting shortage of medication
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Cap-Haitien, Haiti – 23 May 2025
4. Dispensary shelves with medicine
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 27 May 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Dr. Gabriel Timothe, Director of the Ministry of Health: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT6++
“The first thing I must say is that there is no shortage of medicines to give to HIV patients until the end of this year.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Cap-Haitien, Haiti – 23 May 2025
6. Doctor showing a box of antiviral medication
7. Dispensary shelves with medicine
STORYLINE:
A work group in Haiti with health officials and representatives from various organizations met in Port-au-Prince on Monday to discuss the shortage of the medication essential to keep HIV /AIDS patients alive.
The meeting came in response to a protest held the previous week by dozens of Haitians with HIV that defied stigma as they publicly denounced USAID cuts implemented by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump that have led to a dwindling of life-saving drugs
Louis Gérald Gilles, member of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT), assured the population that there would be no shortage of antiviral medication.
“We are exploring many avenues for solutions,” said Gilles.
Gilles also said that the Ministry of Finance would study the use of state funds to restock hospitals and pharmacies.
While the Director of the Health Ministry, Dr. Gabriel Timothe, affirmed
that there was enough medicine for HIV/AIDS patients “until the end of this year.”
But some hospitals and clinics caring for HIV/AIDS patients worry that medication will run out as early as July.
At the New Hope Hospital in Haiti’s northern region, shelves are running low. The hospital used to receive over $165,000 a year to assist HIV/AIDS patients. However, that funding has dried up, and doctors find it challenging to share that reality with their more than 550 HIV patients.
More than 150,000 people in Haiti have HIV or AIDS, although non-profits believe the number to be much higher.
At least five clinics, including one that served 2,500 patients, have been forced to close after the U.S. slashed more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall aid across the globe.
Experts say Haiti could see a surge in infections because medications are dwindling at a time when gang violence and poverty are surging.
AP Video by Pierre Luxama and Gerald Maxineau
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