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A friend helping Jean Denis Theodore, 38, who is in the last stages of AIDS, as he lies down in a bed at the Peaceful Yard Hospice, one of the rare institutions for indigent AIDS victims in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday, Nov. 29, 2002. Recent studies show that 5% of all Haitians, including some 20,000 children, are HIV positive. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                 
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Guy Ducleran, a voodoo ceremony leader, passes in front of imagery painted along the side of a voodoo temple near Saint-Marc, Haiti, Friday, Nov. 29, 2002. With next to no funding, Ducleran and other members of his family have to perform all of the temple's upkeep. As poverty continues to worsen in the western hemisphere's poorest country, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is coming under increasing pressure to speed government reforms. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
                                      
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A boy waits in front of the imagery of a voodoo temple near Saint-Marc, Haiti, Friday, Nov. 29, 2002. As poverty continues to worsen in the western hemisphere's poorest country, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is coming under increasing pressure to speed government reforms. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
                                     
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Opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide dance and sing anti-Aristide songs during a protest in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2002. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
                                 

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A Haitian police officer aims a shotgun towards two men entering a hospital during a protest in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2002. Thousands of Haitians demonstrated against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government on Thursday.(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
                           
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A tire repairman gestures between two public buses in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2002. Tensions remain high in this Caribbean nation as Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide comes under pressure to speed government reforms and alleviated worsening poverty in the western hemisphere's poorest country. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
                        
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