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class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haitian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Executive Director</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Organization</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/Zanmi_Lasante" title="Zanmi Lasante">Zanmi Lasante</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">health care activism</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Human_Rights_Award" title="Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award">Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award</a> (2002)<br /><i><a href="/wiki/Ms._(magazine)" title="Ms. (magazine)">Ms.</a></i> magazine "Woman of the Year" (2003)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Loune Viaud</b> (born c. 1966<sup id="cite_ref-Ms_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ms-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) is Executive Director of <a href="/wiki/Zanmi_Lasante" title="Zanmi Lasante">Zanmi Lasante</a>, <a href="/wiki/Partners_in_Health" class="mw-redirect" title="Partners in Health">Partners in Health</a>’s sister organization in <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>. She won the 2002 <a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Human_Rights_Award" title="Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award">Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award</a> for her work with the group to provide health care in <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2003 was named one of <i><a href="/wiki/Ms._(magazine)" title="Ms. (magazine)">Ms.</a></i> magazine's "Women of the Year".<sup id="cite_ref-Ms_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ms-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loune_Viaud&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Viaud was born in <a href="/wiki/Port-Salut" title="Port-Salut">Port-Salut</a> in southern Haiti.<sup id="cite_ref-Ms_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ms-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1980s, she organized programs for street children in poor areas of <a href="/wiki/Port-au-Prince" title="Port-au-Prince">Port-au-Prince</a> alongside future president <a href="/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide" title="Jean-Bertrand Aristide">Jean-Bertrand Aristide</a>. In 1988, she was present for the <a href="/wiki/St_Jean_Bosco_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="St Jean Bosco massacre">St Jean Bosco massacre</a>, an attack on Aristide's church which left at least 13 dead; following the attack, she left the country, resettling in Boston. There she became active with Partners in Health, founding programs for the Haitian immigrant community including "Haitian Teens Confront AIDS".<sup id="cite_ref-RFK2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RFK2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1990, following <a href="/wiki/Haitian_general_election,_1990%E2%80%931991" class="mw-redirect" title="Haitian general election, 1990–1991">a democratic election</a> that brought Aristide the presidency, she returned to Haiti.<sup id="cite_ref-RFK2_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RFK2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That year, she helped found <a href="/w/index.php?title=Proje_Sante_Fanm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Proje Sante Fanm (page does not exist)">Proje Sante Fanm</a>, Haiti's first women's health clinic. She has also begun a gender-awareness training program for health care workers as well as women's literacy projects and scholarship programs.<sup id="cite_ref-Ms_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ms-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also implemented numerous projects for <a href="/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS">AIDS</a> education and prevention.<sup id="cite_ref-RFK2_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RFK2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Partners in Health co-founder <a href="/wiki/Paul_Farmer" title="Paul Farmer">Paul Farmer</a> said of her work, "It’s no exaggeration to claim that Loune’s pragmatic solidarity has reached hundreds of thousands of Haitian women living in poverty."<sup id="cite_ref-Ms_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ms-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2002, Viaud won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her innovative human rights-based approach to establishing health care systems in Haiti. Her groundbreaking work encompasses rights-based <a href="/wiki/HIV/AIDS" title="HIV/AIDS">HIV/AIDS</a> treatment; advocating for fundamental rights including health, access to medicine, and clean water; and working with the local government and citizens to build the government’s capacity to respond to those human rights.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During her acceptance speech, she stressed the need to represent the rights of the poor and that basic social and economic rights must be respected.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since receiving the award, she has joined forces with the <a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Center_for_Justice_and_Human_Rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights">RFK Center</a> to work with the international community to implement a rights-based framework for assistance that prioritizes Haitian participation.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake" title="2010 Haiti earthquake">earthquake in January 2010</a>, Viaud has been working to strengthen the Haitian health care sector by providing health care to the most vulnerable populations. She has partnered with the government and other organizations to help establish a children’s shelter for orphaned and abandoned children.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Named Zamni Beni, meaning “Blessed Friends”, the shelter is staffed by caregivers responsible for providing ongoing educational, emotional, and psychosocial support to orphans.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She is currently the Executive Director of <a href="/wiki/Zanmi_Lasante" title="Zanmi Lasante">Zanmi Lasante</a>. The organization offers free health care to hundreds of thousands of people. Her expertise informed a grant proposal to the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculouis and Malaria and resulted in a $67 million grant to Haiti and Zanmi Lasante. Making it the largest AIDS treatment program in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2010, Zanmi Lasante employed over 5,000 Haitians and support 12 health facilities.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loune_Viaud&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Laureate, Awarded in 2002</li> <li>Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission, 2000<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Doctorate, Regis College, 2011<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Rang <a href="/wiki/NASDAQ" class="mw-redirect" title="NASDAQ">NASDAQ</a> opening bell in New York City’s Times Square, 2011<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loune_Viaud&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 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