Claim: Yvonne Sylvain (June 28, 1907 – October 3, 1989) was the first female doctor of obstetrics and gynaecology from  Port-au-Prince, Haiti who was also the sister of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Haiti’s first woman anthropologist.
Evidence: Yvonne Sylvain (June 28, 1907 – October 3, 1989) was the first female doctor from Haiti. Obstetrics and gynaecology Dr. Yvonne Sylvain was born in Port-au-Prince to Eugénie Mallebranche and Georges Sylvain, a Haitian activist and an important figure of resistance against the American occupation of Haiti. They had seven children, one of them being Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Haiti's first woman anthropologist.