The Editor, Sir:

Pure defamation is the only way to describe the article titled 'Haiti was the launching pad for HIV into the US'. Conscientious and Afrocentric Haitians began arriving in post-colonial Africa in the '60s as teachers, doctors and engineers. To conclude that the virus was "most likely" transported to Haiti and later to America is as biased and crooked as a study can get.

The Europeans are more prolific travellers, and their presence in Africa far outdated that of the Haitians. The virus with a greater likelihood could have gone to Belgium, France, England, Canada ... and later to America.

To single out Haiti as a vector of the virus into the Americas is an attempt of the European political and medical establishment to hide their dirty works with chimpanzees, and to put the blame on a nation that seems defenceless and isolated. They still can't get over 1804!

I am, etc.,

PHILLIPE PAPILLON

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