Thursday in the Primature, Republican Senator Bob Corker (Tennessee), Presidnet of the Foreign Affairs Committee, accompanied by Robin Diallo, Chargé d'Affaires ai of the United States Embassy in Haiti, Melinda Crowley, Political Advisor and Caleb C. McCarry, a member of the team, paid a visit to the Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant.

The United States Embassy described the meeting between the two men as excellent and cordial, without any further information on the content of this meeting.

Subsequently, Senator Corker, on his fourth visit to Haiti, visited the GHESKIO Center facilities Haitian Kaposi Sarcoma Study Group and Opportunistic Infections / Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections where he attended a demonstration of water treatment equipment.

Finally, he went to St-Luc Hospital, which received financial support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the construction of several sanitary blocks, which allowed this Hospital Center to increase its patient treatment capacity.

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