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─ Area: AIDS-HIV - R ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Msg#: 500 Date: 01-08-93 04:43
From: Billi Goldberg Read: Yes Replied: No
To: All Mark:
Subj: (4) CDC SUMMARY 1/6/93
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-=> Quoting Billi Goldberg to All <=-
BG> "In Prison for Being a Haitian With HIV" Chicago Tribune (01/05/93),
BG> P. 1-11 (Quindlen, Anna)
BG> It would make more sense for the United States to incarcerate
BG> people who commit crimes, rather than refugees infected with HIV,
BG> writes columnist Anna Quindlen. Silieses Success, a Haitian refugee,
BG> gave birth to her first baby while detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
BG> Not knowing that she was infected with HIV, Success passed the virus
BG> on to her baby, who later died. She has been put in prison, despite
BG> the fact that she has been charged with no crime. She is in jail
BG> only because she is HIV positive, contends Quindlen. Success' son
BG> died at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he and his
BG> mother had been sent from Guantanamo when his health deteriorated.
BG> But afterward Success became somewhat of an immigration problem.
BG> Because the United States is one of the few countries that excludes
BG> HIV-positive foreigners as public health risks, her blood test made
BG> her inadmissible for entry. However, she was already in the country,
BG> and had a case for political asylum because her parents, who supported
BG> the ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, were murdered. The
BG> United States is insensitive to these Haitians and considers them
BG> faceless black problems, says Quindlen. President-elect Clinton has
BG> vowed to change the policy that repatriated Haitians without
BG> determining whether they had legitimate cases for asylum, and has
BG> said that he will eliminate HIV infection as a barrier to
BG> immigration. Yet Success will have to wait. She should be set free
BG> for both her own sake and for ours, so that we can imprison people
BG> who do wrong, instead of those who are merely ill, concludes
BG> Quindlen. -!-
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