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AFTER HAITIAN MEDICAL DOCTORS BLOCKED PROJECT Millions of children in Haiti to receive life-saving vaccines-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Haiti launched a countrywide vaccination campaign to immunize millions of children against childhood killers. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, center, tours…

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Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Vice President Nominated to be Haiti’s Ambassador to the U.S.

WASHINGTON, Apr 20, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is proud to recognize that Paul Altidor, the Fund’s Vice President of Programs…

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Eleven People Reported Dead by Cholera in Haiti

Prensa Latina:Port-au-Prince, Apr 17 (Prensa Latina) At least 11 people died in northern Haiti last week by a renewed outbreak of the epidemic of cholera,…

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CDC Chief: New Vaccines In Haiti Will Save Tens Of Thousands

NPR.org by Richard Knox 07:50 pm Ramon Espinosa/APU.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (center) talks to a health worker during a visit…

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Regional summit’s future in doubt without Cuba

Hemispheric leaders ended their two-day meeting without issuing a final declaration and with some members demanding that Cuba be part of any future meetings —…

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Port-Au-Prince: A City Of Millions, With No Sewer System

11:19 am April 13, 2012 John W. Poole / NPRA makeshift latrine hangs over the water at the edge of Cite de Dieu, a slum…

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Haiti health workers to give cholera vaccine

CBS News:PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The chief advocates for a cholera vaccination program in Haiti will begin distributing the vaccine this weekend after a government ethics…

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Water In The Time Of Cholera: Haiti’s Most Urgent Health Problem

NPR.Org: In the teeming city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, millions of people have no reliable water supply. Many of the underground pipes that did exist were…

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Vaccination Against Cholera Finally Begins In Haiti

by Richard Knox NPR.Org After myriad delays and setback, health workers in Haiti are beginning to vaccinate against cholera. John W. Poole / NPRRice farmer…

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GREED IS GOOD

Does Gilbert Bigio make Israel look good? By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 25, 2010 When Amos Radian, Israel’s Dominican Republic-based ambassador to the…

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Haitian Teen to Testify in UN Abuse Scandal

Video captured on a cell phone purportedly shows U.N. peacekeepers sexually assaulting an 18-year-old boy in Haiti. (ABC News Exclusive) By LEE FERRAN and MATTHEW…

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For 6 Decades, the Sound of Good News in Haiti ‘When the Drum Is Beating,’ About Orchestre Septentrional

Since the founding of the Orchestre Septentrional in 1948, the band’s homeland, Haiti, has endured the nearly three-decade Duvalier family dictatorship, 26 other governments, a…

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On the Ground: Journalism Ethics in Haiti

By Kathie Klarreich A few months into my Knight International Journalism Fellowship in Haiti, I was conducting a training session in a radio newsroom in…

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Haiti aims for tourism transformation as earthquake recovery continues

Two luxury hotel properties are set to open in the next two years. Marriott More than two years after the earthquake which destroyed much of…

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A NEW GENERATION OF CARPET BAGGERS INVADES HAITI FROM THE UNITED STATES

March 13, 2012 Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake in 2010. Since that time, has struggled to recover from this disaster that killed some…

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Cholera Solutions for Haiti

NY times: To the Editor: “Global Failures on a Haitian Epidemic” (front page, April 1) draws long-overdue attention to the health crisis in Haiti. Eradicating…

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Cholera, sanitation, and suspicion in Haiti

scienceblogs.com-Deborah Sontag’s New York Times piece “Haiti’s Cholera Outraced the Experts and Tainted the UN” is a reminder that while public attention to the earthquake-ravaged…

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Dominican Republic and Haiti continue plans against malaria

Santo Domingo. Efforts to eliminate two mosquito-borne diseases –malaria and lymphatic filariasis– in Haiti and the Dominican Republic are ongoing, with the first of four…

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Journalist critical of efforts in Haiti Former reporter says aid groups haven’t delivered lasting change

By STEPHEN DI BENEDETTO The Register-Mail GALESBURG — The numerous aid groups that clamored to rebuild Haiti following a destructive earthquake two years ago have…

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HAITI BROILER’S Fun in the Son Festival Brings the Hope and Help of the Good News to Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — At the invitation of hundreds of Haiti’s churches, the Luis Palau Association joined with local company…