This poses a lethal threat to malnourished children who are already at risk for cholera. Haiti has been among the top five countries in numbers of recorded cholera cases, and the spread of ...
Untreated, cholera can kill within hours of the first ... and lots of clean water—but Haiti’s weak health system could not handle an epidemic. Indeed, the “medical grid” (aid-speak for ...
there are now more than 700 confirmed cases of cholera in Haiti Haiti's cholera outbreak is worsening, with confirmed cases jumping to more than 700 and cholera-related deaths to 161, the Pan ...
In 2010, a magnitude-7 earthquake dealt Haiti and its capital Port-au-Prince ... infrastructure of the island nation and sparked a cholera outbreak that killed thousands over the next several ...
Multiple threats to children's health, safety and well-being include recruitment into armed groups amid escalating violence ...
Over 3,900 Haitians have died of cholera since the outbreak began mid-October, officials in the western hemisphere's poorest nation informed. The disease has spread to all 10 of Haiti’s ...
Prince, nearly three million people are living in the grips of all-out gang war. A film crew spent a fortnight filming in and ...
Jacqueline Charles,… Violence and instability in Haiti as ongoing crisis deepens Gripped by gang violence, a new cholera outbreak and widespread shortages of food, water and fuel, the crisis in ...
Armed groups in Haiti are inflicting “unimaginable horrors” on children, turning their “bodies into battlegrounds”, according ...
They also blame the UN for the cholera crisis which broke out a few ... A generation of children is bearing the scars of Haiti’s earthquake, according to the charity Save the Children, their ...
In 2010, a magnitude-7 earthquake dealt Haiti and its capital Port-au-Prince ... infrastructure of the island nation and sparked a cholera outbreak that killed thousands over the next several ...