Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Haiti the most vulnerable to climate change; Iceland the least
Haiti is the nation most at risk from rising sea levels, floods and other impacts of climate change, according to a new global survey…
Haiti: Cholera Vaccines One Possible Option For Preventing More Outbreaks
Doctors Without Borders: Haiti was hit with a massive epidemic of cholera, a disease not seen in the country for perhaps a century, in October…
Cholera Vaccine Trials in Haiti
by Art Writ, October 23rd, 2011 Healthblog.net Cholera epidemic has been bothering the globe because of its debilitating effects to the health of the people….
WHO predicts Haiti cholera cases to top 500,000 by year end, disease to become endemic-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Washington Post: GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the number of cholera cases in Haiti is expected to exceed 500,000 by the end of 2011….
AFTER PREVAL’S REFUSAL, MARTELLY SEES Haiti turn to vaccinations a year after cholera struck-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Miami Herald: In a dramatic policy shift, Haiti has agreed to support a massive vaccination program to slow a cholera outbreak that has claimed more…
Donors rushed to help Haiti, but Clinton Bush fund was slow to release the money
October 19, 2011|By Megan O’Matz, Sun Sentinel: In the year following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, nearly $49 million poured into a relief fund…
Haiti Quake Panel’s Mandate Ends-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
AP:The mandate is ending for a Haiti reconstruction panel that was set up to coordinate donor aid after last year’s earthquake. The Interim Haiti Recovery…
Scientists See Promise in Vaccine For Malaria
Ake Ericson/Aurora Photos Children sick with malaria, rest on blankets in Jandemar, Sierra Leone. Preliminary results from the trial of a malaria vaccine show that it protected…
CONILLE – CONILLE – CONILLE-Fort d’un appui massif de 81 voix pour, avec seulement 7 abstentions et 0 contre, le nouveau Premier ministre va diriger le premier gouvernement de la Présidence Martelly qui doit affronter des problèmes gigantesques
Publié le samedi 15 octobre 2011 La Chambre des Députés a adopté massivement samedi matin (peu après 08h00 heure locale, 13h00 GMT) par…
Les cas de choléra se multiplient dans la Grand’Anse, le Nord et l’Artibonite
Le Nouvelliste: Les cas de choléra se sont multipliés ces derniers jours dans les départements du Nord, de la Grand’Anse et de l’Artibonite. Cette recrudescence…
A Light In The Dark: Solar Streetlights And Security In Haitian Camps
Nascent nightlife at the Pétionville Camp. Courtesy SELF By Matthew Van Dusen, Txchnologist Streetlights do more than tell us when to be home — “Be…
Peru, Brazil, Haiti Account for Half of Tuberculosis Cases in Region
Peruvian Times: Peru, Brazil and Haiti account for 50 percent of the cases of tuberculosis in Latin America, according to a report by the World Health…
CHOLERA ACCELERATES: 1,100,000 VICTIMS BY YEAR’S END!!! GREATER DEATH TOLL THAT 2010 EARTHQUAKE POSSIBLE, AND IT KILLED 387,000!!-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Haiti: Cholera cases are increasing in Port-au-Prince 10 Oct 2011 Cholera is still rife in Haiti and far from under control. Having ravaged other parts…
Report From Haiti: Where’s the Money?
OPEDNEWS.COM Broken and collapsed buildings remain in every neighborhood. Men pull oxcarts by hand through the street. Women carry 5-gallon plastic jugs of water on…
Three years and $18M later, Haiti police academy remains unbuilt-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
National Haitian police stand at attention. Three years after Canada promised to build the troubled nation a new police academy, work still hasn’t started….
CHOLERA DEATHS CRIMINALLY UNDERSTATED – COULD KILL MORE THAN EARTHQUAKES 337,000 Medicines Sans Frontieres: Haiti: Cholera cases are increasing in Port-au-Prince-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Oct 10, 2011 Cholera is still rife in Haiti and far from under control. Having ravaged other parts of the island in June, it is…
SLOVENIA DONATES MODULAR SCHOOL
October 6 2011 Roman Kirn, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the U.S. and Dr. Arthur B. Keys, Jr., President and CEO of International…
OUT OF SIGHT- OUT OF MIND…CHOLERA COULD KILL MORE THAN EARTHQUAKE!! Haiti: Cholera Cases Increasing Again in Port-au-Prince MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERS
An MSF cholera treatment center in Port-au-Prince this past May. Though the international community is paying far less attention now that it did last year,…
Haiti’s stalled recovery
The Star.com “As school goes, so goes the nation.” That’s how Josué Mérilien, a Haitian teacher and union leader, sees it. And the schools aren’t…
Spain’s Queen Sofia visiting aid projects in Haiti
By TRENTON DANIEL Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—European royalty arrived in impoverished Haiti on Friday as Spain’s Queen Sofia came to check on aid efforts that…

















