At the world's first AIDS clinic, a half-mile from the wrecked national palace, director Jean "Bill" Pape is racing to rebuild one of Haiti's few world-class institutions after the Jan. 12 earthquake killed workers, destroyed buildings and suspended research.
But first, Dr. Pape is treating more than 2,000 earthquake victims and figuring out how to care for 5,000 newly homeless people who have camped out on the rambling property, including about two dozen ex-prisoners.
"We need razor wire and military security," said Dr. Pape, a Haitian-born infectious disease expert who has been building the clinic, Gheskio, for almost three decades with support from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
Wall Street Journal
1/27/10
