Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Has Haiti’s cholera epidemic become a permanent problem?
April 11, 2016 by Alex Weppelmann, University Of Florida, The Conversation Patients and companions at the Cholera Treatment Center in Haiti, April 2015. Credit: Andres…
$200M call for funds to help the most vulnerable
Haiti Libre: Thursday, the Government of Haiti and the Humanitarian Country Team of the United Nations launched a call for funds of $193.8 million to…
Leaked UN report faults sanitation at Haiti bases at time of cholera outbreak
The UN denies its peacekeepers caused the epidemic that killed thousands but a 2010 report details sewage being dumped in the open and a lack…
Truth and justice for Haiti
Dieu Nalio Chery/AP A wheelchair bound man crossed a street flooded with dirty water in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Feb. 28. April 04, 2016 Victims of…
Haiti protest demands justice for 3 slain deaf women
The Sainte Marie neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is seen on February 19, 2016, with the Bay of Port-au-Prince in the background. HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images PORT-AU-PRINCE,…
Greetings from the land of big juicy mangos ! Fermathe, March 22, 2016
We are grateful that Our Heavenly Father has permitted us to be in Haiti where our eyes and hearts met, and where our sons and…
Why The U.N. Is Being Sued Over Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic
NPR.org Richard Knox Health workers collect the body of a cholera victim in Petionville, Haiti, February 2011. The disease first appeared on the island in…
BILL CLINTON WORRIED ABOUT HAITI SCANDAL THREAT TO HILLARY PRESIDENCY – SENDS ENVOY TO SEE PRIVERT/BELLERIVE IN NATIONAL PALACE – CLINTON REP DIES UPON LEAVING PALACE.
Mars 20, 2016 The Bill and Hillary Clinton involvement with Haiti’s failed earthquake recovery projects in which Bill Clinton placed himself in a position where…
Cholera Deaths in Haiti Far Exceeds Official Count
By RICK GLADSTONE MARCH 18, 2016 Deaths from the cholera epidemic that ravaged Haiti after the 2010 earthquake could be much higher than the 9,200…
National Ambulance Centre already 4 years of existence
Haiti :Libre: Inaugurated March 7, 2012 The National Ambulance Centre (CAN), located at #1 Avenue Maïs Gaté, is the result of a tripartite agreement signed…
Protests continue against Hillary Clinton’s role in Haiti after earthquake
caribbean360.com PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Thursday March 17, 2016 – Six years after Haiti was devastated by the massive 2010 earthquake, many people in the impoverished Caribbean…
Tsunami Warning Exercise
Haiti Libre: This Thursday, March 17, Haiti participates in the regional tsunami warning exercise “Caribe Wave 16”, alongside thirty countries and territories in the Caribbean….
Volunteering for Infection in Hunt for Dengue, Zika Vaccines
By lauran neergaard, ap medical writer Forget mosquito bites. Volunteers let researchers inject them with the dengue virus in the name of science — and…
Haitians Lawsuit Against United Nations Over Cholera Continues
The Source.com When cholera first appeared in Haiti, it caused massive panic throughout the country. It was reported well over 100,000 people were infected and…
Haiti records nearly 100 cholera deaths in first two months of 2016
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Haiti says it has recorded 96 people have died from cholera during the first two months of this year….
Haiti – Cholera : Downward trend but… – Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Haiti Libre: Official data published by the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) indicate a gradual reduction in the number of cases. Indeed, from…
How Global Earthquake Relief Left Haiti In Worse Shape Than Ever
By Christine DiMattei On Jan. 12, 2010, former Associated Press reporter Jonathan Katz was the only full-time American correspondent in Haiti when the earthquake hit….
Haiti earthquake: $13.5 billion in donations, but is any of it working?
Seedlings at a farm in the community of Moulin in the 7th Municipality Section of Gros Morne in Haiti. (World Neighbors) Ann M. SimmonsContact Reporter…
Review: ‘Peacekeeping’ Transcends Pre-Quake Haiti Setting
By jennifer kay, associated press “Peacekeeping” (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG), by Mischa Berlinski While plenty has been written, fiction and nonfiction, about Haiti’s political disgraces, natural…
UN’s own experts chastise Ban Ki-moon over handling of Haiti cholera outbreak – Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Human rights experts say secretary general’s refusal to allow victims any effective remedy for suffering has stripped thousands of their rights A worker pours water…