Carlos Estévez (2-0) retired each of his four batters — two by strikeouts — to get the win. Taylor Clarke worked the 10th for his first save this season.
Another marching alongside her said, “Without medication, we are dying. This needs to change.”Three days after Monday’s protest, the leader of Haiti’s transitional presidential council, Louis Gérald Gilles, announced that he had met with activists and would try to secure funding.
Meanwhile, nonprofit organizations across Haiti are fretting.“I don’t know what we’re going to do,” said Marie Denis-Luque, founder and executive director of CHOAIDS, a nonprofit that cares for Haitian orphans with HIV/AIDS. “We only have medication until July.”Her voice broke as she described her frantic search for donations for the orphans, who are cared for by HIV-positive women in Cap-Haitien after
forced them to leave Port-au-Prince.Denis-Luque said she has long advocated for the orphans’ visibility.
“We can’t keep hiding these children. They are part of society,” she said, adding that she smiled when she saw the video of Monday’s protest. “I was like, whoa, things have changed tremendously. The stigma is real, but I think what I saw … was very encouraging to me. They can’t be silenced.”
Experts say Haiti could see a rise in HIV infections because medications are dwindling at a time that gang violence andThe dead also included a photographer and two young women just starting out in the music industry.
Here’s what to know about the victims and the crash:Shapiro, 42, got into music playing in a band he founded with friends while in high school, called Count with Stars.
But it was the connections he made that made him successful, more than the music he played.Shapiro helped bring the underground $10-a-show alternative scene of the 2010s to the mainstream. He also was huge in creating a community, said Mike Shea, founder of Alternative Press Magazine.