Information About Haiti

The death toll from Haiti’s month-old cholera outbreak continues to grow.

PORT AU PRINCE – The difference between life and death in Haiti is now an ordinary bar of soap.

MIAMI, Nov. 15 (UPI) — Haiti’s presidential candidates brought their campaign to a debate in Miami.

Byron Pitts Reports On The Cholera Outbreak And Haiti’s Difficult Recovery From The Earthquake

Protesters angry over the government’s handling of the cholera outbreak clashed Monday with peacekeepers in Cap Haitien, residents and officials in the northern coastal city told CNN.

With the death toll from Haiti’s cholera epidemic nearing 800, international organizations have stepped up appeals for funds to bring in more doctors, medicine and water purification equipment.

The arrival of cholera in Haiti is first and foremost a health emergency.

The death toll in Haiti’s cholera epidemic climbed on Thursday to 800, according to an American medical expert, but U.S. health authorities said the risk of widespread transmission to the United States was low, given good sanitation there.

Medical workers in Haiti on Friday called the upward trend in deaths and illnesses in the cholera outbreak “alarming” as the earthquake-devastated nation’s already strained health system overflowed with the sick.

In the shadow of the devastation, homelessness and disease that remain in Haiti after January’s devastating earthquake, there is beauty and art.