Information About Haiti

Just one year after the cholera epidemic emerged in Haiti, nearly half a million Haitians have contracted the disease and more than 6,000 have died form it. Michel Martin explores what cholera is, and how Haiti’s government is making new efforts to tackle the crisis. She speaks with Miami Herald Caribbean Correspondent Jacqueline Charles and Dr. Louise Ivers, who lives in Haiti and works for …

CARREFOUR, Haiti — An orphanage where the director was accused by U.S. missionaries of not feeding children and selling donated goods was closed Friday in a rare crackdown by Haitian authorities. Police officers and child welfare officials sealed off the unpaved street in front of the Son of God orphanage and 46 children who lived there were loaded into a UNICEF bus and taken to new homes …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — 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 Commission’s 18-month mandate ends Friday. Pierre Manigat Junior of the commission says it didn’t receive a request from President Michel Martelly for an extension. Read full article >>

The mandate is ending for a Haiti reconstruction panel that was set up to coordinate donor aid after last year’s earthquake.

Haiti’s health ministry is preparing to test a cholera vaccine on a hundred people, a year after an epidemic killed over 6,500 people, officials said Wednesday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti has the highest rate of cholera in the world a mere year after the disease first arrived in the Caribbean nation, a leading health expert said Tuesday. Dr. Paul Farmer, one of the founders of the medical group Partners in Health and U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, said cholera has sickened more than 450,000 people in a nation of 10 million, or nearly 5 percent …

Haiti’s new prime minister and his Cabinet have taken office with the task of rebuilding the quake-devastated Haiti.

One of Haiti’s most prominent health experts says the country’s cholera outbreak is now the worst in the world. Dr. Paul Farmer said cholera has sickened more than 450,000 people and killed more than 6,000. Farmer says it is on the verge of becoming the leading cause of death by infectious disease in Haiti.

Haiti has the highest rate of cholera in the world a mere year after the disease first arrived in the Caribbean nation, a leading health expert said Tuesday.