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Associated Press - November 30, 2004
Powell also will commemorate World AIDS Day by meeting with Haitian youth who receive and provide HIV/AIDS support services, including peer counseling.
In the fiscal year that ended in September, the United States committed $20 million to Haiti to support a treatment, care and prevention program for HIV/AIDS.
Powell will meet with President Boniface Alexandre and Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, among other officials. He will spend about five hours in Haiti.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the United States is making available $46 million to help Haiti overcome damage from recent flooding and hurricanes.
It also pledged $230 million at a Haiti donors conference to assist Haitians in job creation, budget support and other areas, Boucher said.
Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced from office last February in a popular uprising. A U.S.-led force kept the peace until June and was replaced by a 3,000-member U.N. force led by Brazil.
Despite the international presence, rebels and former soldiers continue to occupy police stations across the country.
On Monday, the U.N. Security Council condemned "all acts of violence and the attempts by some armed groups to perform unauthorized law enforcement functions in the country."
It also voted unanimously to keep U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti for six months.
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