Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
‘Really quite disastrous’
WashingtonPost: By Editorial Board, Saturday, May 26, 3:23 PM AS THE WORLD’S worst outbreak of cholera continues to ravage Haiti, international donors have averted their gaze. Humanitarian…
Les Milliards d’Haïti – Une Exclusive Interview de Colin Powell…
Why The US Owes Haiti Billions – The Briefest History (Original English Version below) Les Milliards d’Haïti – Une exclusive interview de Colin Powell Collin…
Mexico and CARICOM Sign Agreement on Haiti’s Reconstruction
Above: Mexico and CARICOM begin talks in Barbados Monday (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell-Carib Journal BRIDGETOWN — Haiti’s reconstruction efforts will receive support following the…
Cheap amoebic dysentery drug ‘promising’
Cheap amoebic dysentery drug ‘promising’ By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Entamoeba histolytica in the gut cause dysentery A cheap drug, which…
Rising price concerns as Dominicans vote for president
All support is welcome: Hipolito Mejia is trailing in the opinion polls Two veteran politicians are contesting a poll in the Dominican Republic after a…
Haiti’s troubled peacemakers A massive wrong
Apr 27th 2012, 6:14 by The Economist online. MINUSTAH, the UN’s 9,000-member peacekeeping force in Haiti, has been blamed for a cholera outbreak there. Unfortunately,…
HAITI: Funding Dries Up Even as Rains Worsen Cholera Deaths
PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 18, 2012 (IPS) – As predicted, the beginning of the rainy season in Haiti brought exponential increases in the numbers of people sickened…
‘Pay the f*** up!’ Sean Penn turns the air blue in Cannes with expletive-ridden plea at Haiti Relief benefit
By Baz Bamigboye In Cannes It was the most lavish party in Cannes, with tickets going for a whopping $7,500 a pop. But Sean Penn…
Sean Penn and Friends Raise Over $1Mil at Cannes Bash
Sean Penn is serious about Haiti. He and director Paul Haggis combined their charitable efforts last night with supermodel Petra Nemcova’s HelpingHands.org, and they raised…
Is this Minustah’s ‘Abu Ghraib moment’ in Haiti?
GuardianUK:Video, edited by ABC News, showing the alleged sexual assault of a young man in Haiti by Minustah (UN) peacekeeping soldiers The video is profoundly…
Haiti ‘rape victim’ set for court testimony
A 19-year-old Haitian man who has accused six Uruguayan soldiers of raping him while serving with the UN’s peacekeeping mission to the country will testify on…
Haiti’s Hotel Boom: Only for the Rich-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
The reconstruction effort in Haiti is faithfully following trickledown economic policies, which will exacerbate income inequality in the country. May 9, 2012 | An earthquake…
Haiti Unprepared in the Face of Resurgent Cholera
Haiti 2011 © Frederik Matte/MSF Patients affected by cholera receive treatment at an MSF cholera treatment center in Port-au-Prince. PORT-AU-PRINCE, MAY 9, 2012—Cholera cases are…
UN Haiti peacekeepers face outcry over alleged rape
PORT-AU-PRINCE: The UN mission in Haiti faced public anger on Monday over allegations that Uruguayan UN troops raped an 18-year-old local man, in the latest…
FDA review favors first drug for HIV prevention
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer AP Photo WASHINGTON (AP) — A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved one step…
Haiti – Economy : Details on the project Phoenix of $250 million
Haiti Libre: International Electric Power, LLC (IEP) is pleased to announce, in partnership with the Government of Haiti, the signing of an agreement between the…
Cloud-Based Collaboration Brings Medical Expertise To Haiti
Collaboration between IBM and the Colleagues in Care Global Health Network gives doctors in remote parts of the world access to evidence-based medicine. By Anthony…
Cholera in Haiti shows no signs of being stamped out
Health officials have been paying especially close attention to cholera infection rates in Haiti as it heads into the rainy season. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Monday, May…
University of California Haiti Initiative Raises Awareness of Relief Money Misuse through Film Screening
The Bottom Line: Isabel Atkinson Staff Writer The University of California Haiti Initiative presented the film “Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?” on Wed., April…
Lethal Weapon actor Danny Glover attends Haiti earthquake fundraiser at Crossroads centre
Pictured: Danny Glover with Selma James at the Crossroads Centre on Saturday Published: 03 May 2012 by ANGELA COBBINAH KENTISH Town shoppers who thought that…








