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29 June 2012 - 5:42pmSanitation conditions in camps for displaced people across Haiti have improved considerably over the past two months, following efforts to repair, maintain and replace latrines, according to humanitarian agencies there. Earlier this year, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocated US$3.5... -
7 June 2012 - 9:26amHumanitarian partners in Haiti are bracing for an increase in new cases of cholera as the hurricane season gets underway. According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), heavy rains and flooding could contaminate water sources and trigger a surge of up to 4,000 new cholera cases per week in the... -
10 May 2012 - 11:49amSeven-year-old Pierre Laban lives in Savanne Ragé, a small village in Haiti´s Upper Artibonite region. As he was returning home from school one afternoon in March, Pierre started vomiting and suffering from diarrhoea. His 64-year-old grandmother, Filise Pierre Louis, immediately started... -
16 March 2012 - 6:16pmHaiti is struggling to strengthen its institutions and rebuild itself more than two years after the devastating earthquake of 2010. There has been significant progress—around 1 million people have left the camps; 5 million cubic metres of rubble have been cleared and the number of children with... -
11 January 2012 - 8:20pmTwo years ago, a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, leaving in its wake a trail of massive destruction including more than 200,000 people dead and 2.3 million people displaced. One of the largest humanitarian responses ever mounted was launched to provide assistance to the survivors of the most...
