Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Bruns speaks at Rotary on group
Sun Staff Wade Bruns, board member of the International Farmers Organization for Sustainable Development and Valley City area farmer, spoke to the Jamestown Rotary Club…
Grieving Haitians go into lifetime of debt to fund funerals
By: David McFadden – @inquirerdotnet Associated Press / 12:44 PM April 06, 2017 In this photo, taken March 29, 2017, Loubert Gouin moves a broken…
Haiti has the highest rate of tuberculosis in the Americas
Despite the many efforts of the Haitian government to reduce tuberculosis, including free patient care in 256 specialized centers financed by the State Treasury. In…
Six months post-hurricane, hunger gnaws at southern Haiti
Amelie BARON AFP News2 April 2017 Hurricane Matthew slammed into Jeremie and then killed more than 700 people and caused some $2.8 billion in damage…
REMEMBER JOHNY JEAN – RAPED BY 5 URUGUAYAN SAILORS IN PORT SALUT – Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Reports of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers include Haiti, CAR, DRC and South Sudan Number of reported cases worldwide has risen since 2015 Abusers to…
New Emails Reveal Obama, Clintons Led Cover Up of Cholera Outbreak in Haiti
In October 2010, United Nations Peacekeepers from Nepal infected Haiti’s most significant river system with cholera, inciting the first cholera outbreak in the country in over…
A pilot, a rugged plane and a mission: Saving lives
By Roy Wenzl rwenzl@wichitaeagle.com In Haiti one day, a doctor turned to the pilot Will White and asked him to pitch in and do some…
What They Knew, and When They Knew It
New emails reveal just how soon American officials realized the U.N. had brought cholera to Haiti. What they did next helped pave the way for…
Haiti is still waiting on promised UN help for cholera epidemic
AFP/Getty Images Patients with cholera symptoms received medical attention in a hospital in Randelle, Haiti, in October 2016. Food, medicine and other essential aid was…
U.N. Peacekeeping Is a Good Deal for theTrump Administration
By Heather Peterson | Contributor March 29, 2017, at 6:00 a.m. The Trump administration’s recently released 2018 federal budget outline could mean significant cuts to…
Canada and PAHO sign an important agreement for Haiti: Essential Health Care for Mothers and Children (SESAME) project
Port-au-Prince, March 28, 2017—A new partnership between the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization and the Government of Canada aims to reduce the number of…
U.S. Should ‘Assert Moral Leadership,’ Contribute To Efforts To Address Cholera In Haiti
U.S. Should ‘Assert Moral Leadership,’ Contribute To Efforts To Address Cholera In Haiti Mar 27, 2017 Boston Globe: Haiti is still waiting on promised U.N. help…
Chile leader visits Haiti as UN prepares for troop pullout
Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise, front right, escorts Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet after their meeting at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, March 27, 2017….
Peacekeeping chief expects 3 mission to close by March 2018
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ” The U.N. peacekeeping chief said Friday he expects operations in Haiti, Ivory Coast and Liberia to end by March 2018 which…
Desperate Haitians living in caves, eating toxic plants in post-hurricane Haiti
Desperate Haitians living in caves, eating toxic plants in post-hurricane Haiti Mar 25, 2017 Since Hurricane Matthew, families have taken refuge in a cave in…
Suffering countries: Haiti second in international ranking
PUBLISHED ON 24 March, 2017 BY Julie Bourdon Haiti (MNN) — A Gallup report published yesterday says the three countries with the greatest suffering on…
The Sanneh Foundation bringing silver lining to Haiti
Fifa.com And life continues on, we can affect it…but we have to do something. A group wearing tracksuits and carting 15 large hockey-equipment bags down…
U.N. Should Be Responsible For Ensuring Cholera Campaign In Haiti Succeeds
U.N. Should Be Responsible For Ensuring Cholera Campaign In Haiti Succeeds Mar 21, 2017 New York Times: U.N. Accepts Blame but Dodges the Bill in Haiti…
Tough Choices to Improve Haiti’s Emergency Response Network-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Huffington post: Hundreds or even thousands of lives could be saved every year by improving the ambulance network, or by training paramedics and first aid…
UN Fails Miserably to Raise Funds for Haiti
By Julianna LeMieux — March 20, 2017 Last October, following the UN General Assembly, we wrote of the urgency needed for the global health crisis occurring…