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December 16, 2011

CARICOM Develops Health Project in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is developing a project to improve the healthcare infrastructure and raise Haitian residents'' awareness in the Brooklyn neighborhood, in the community of Cite Soleil, in this capital.

The project, called WASH, consists of personal hygiene and food safety practices, and is part of support for Haiti's national strategy to fight the epidemic of cholera, the website caribbeannewsnow.com reported on Friday.

December 16, 2011

CARICOM Develops Health Project in Haiti

November 1, 2011

Self-sustaining nutrition enterprise in Haiti

Big pharma companies such as Abbott Laboratories, the Illinois-based company is donating the time of dozens of workers with expertise in food sciences and engineering, in addition to $6.5 million cash, to build a charitable, self-sustaining nutrition enterprise in Haiti,

By DUFF WILSON

PHARMACEUTICAL companies around the globe are donating billions of dollars in free drugs to third world countries grappling with poverty and disease. Abbott Laboratories is taking its philanthropy a step further. The Illinois-based company is donating the time of dozens of workers with expertise in food sciences and engineering, in addition to $6.5 million cash, to build a charitable, self-sustaining nutrition enterprise in Haiti.

October 19, 2011

Partners in Health proposes cholera vaccine plan for Haiti

(Reuters) - A U.S. NGO plans to start a ground-breaking cholera vaccination campaign in Haiti in January, it said Wednesday, as experts warned that efforts to combat the year-old deadly epidemic were faltering badly.

October 13, 2011

Muhammad Yunus 2006 Nobel Prize Winner, talks 'social business' in Haiti

Yunus said the "social business" idea is different from the "microcredit" industry that he pioneered in the 1980s, when he gave tiny loans to poor people to help them start small businesses. "There's a business world. There's a charity world," "Why can't we take those ideas and try to make money and also solve (social) problems?"

BY TRENTON DANIEL,ASSOCIATED PRESS

August 9, 2011

U.S. State Department's New Haiti Travel Warnings

The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens traveling to or living in Haiti about the security situation in Haiti. This replaces the Travel Warning dated January 20, 2011 to consolidate and update information regarding the critical crime level, renewed cholera outbreak, lack of adequate infrastructure - particularly in medical facilities, seasonal severe inclement weather, and limited police protection.

July 31, 2011

New Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Grant Will Strengthen Female-Run Businesses in Haiti

The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund continues to nurture economic opportunities for Haiti, today announcing a grant to a unique Haitian microfinance institution. The $850,000 grant to Fonds Haïtien d’Aide à la Femme (FHAF) will help put this institution on a path to financial recovery, and allow it to continue to provide loans to women throughout Haiti.

July 25, 2011

The state of radiology in Port-au-Prince, Haiti hospitals

An ACR delegation from the United States traveled to Haiti in March 2011 to assess the state of radiology in Port-au-Prince hospitals. This video is a multimedia supplement to the ACR Bulletin article, "Moving Mountains," about the College's efforts to assist since the January 2010 earthquake. Visit https://internationalservice.acr.org to learn more about the ACR's Haiti Relief Fund or to donate.

June 23, 2011

Cholera cases increasing in Haiti and Dominican Republic

June 16, 2011

Mobile units to fight the cholera outbreak

An emergency operation for the creation of mobile units against cholera in Haiti has recently been approved

Lodi (Fides Service) - An emergency operation for the creation of mobile units against cholera in Haiti has recently been approved. OCHA, the United Nations Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid, has approved the request for a contribution to intervene in a state of emergency in Haiti, sent by the Fighting World Hunger Movement(FWHM). The objective is the creation of mobile units to combat and prevent the outbreak of cholera that is scourging the country. The areas of intervention are Les Anglais , Les Iroise and Anse d'Hainault, in the south near Lee Cayes.

June 3, 2011

Red Cross reopens Haiti cholera centre

The Red Cross has reopened a cholera treatment centre near Port-au-Prince to fight a resurgence of a disease that killed thousands last year, said a statement on Thursday. According to Haitian health authorities, at least 10 people died in recent days of a new cholera spike in areas near the Haitian capital.

GENEVA — The Red Cross has reopened a cholera treatment centre near Port-au-Prince to fight a resurgence of a disease that killed thousands last year, said a statement on Thursday.

According to Haitian health authorities, at least 10 people died in recent days of a new cholera spike in areas near the Haitian capital.

About 1,000 cholera cases were admitted to the Carrefour hospital, south of the capital, they said.

August 9, 2010

Micro-finance paying off in Haiti

Lucien, a computer engineer who emigrated from Haiti to Massachusetts at 16, has been involved for years with the islanders of Ile a Vache, visiting three or four times a year, helping restart one of their schools, starting a micro-credit program and creating a modest tourist resort, among several other initiatives.

The fish were rotting on Ile a Vache, a lush island of palm trees and white sand off the southern coast of Haiti. Since the sea is the main source of income and protein for the island's 15,000 or so residents, this was both a minor daily tragedy and a sinful waste in a land where millions are malnourished.

With limited electricity on the island, fishermen had to sail 10 kilometres to the mainland for ice. For those who couldn't, their catch became food for flies after two days.

April 14, 2010

"We're going to build a hospital," Studdert, Steven

Stephen Studdert, a Utah County businessman who orchestrated a 120-person "rescue and relief" mission to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, now aspires to help rebuild the country. He'll leave the business of food, water and housing to others. But the 62-year-old has ambitious plans to tackle the impoverished country's growing health crisis.

Stephen Studdert, a Utah County businessman who orchestrated a 120-person "rescue and relief" mission to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, now aspires to help rebuild the country.

He'll leave the business of food, water and housing to others. But the 62-year-old has ambitious plans to tackle the impoverished country's growing health crisis.

"We're going to build a hospital," Studdert said Tuesday. "We're going to build the American Hospital of Haiti."

April 11, 2010

Haiti 3 Months On: World Vision Provides Aid to 1.8 Million People

Three months after the earthquake in Haiti, international relief agency World Vision has provided aid to around 1.8 million people, bringing much-needed aid to affected families throughout the capital city.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three months after the earthquake in Haiti, international relief agency World Vision has provided aid to around 1.8 million people, bringing much-needed aid to affected families throughout the capital city.

March 30, 2010

Architecture: A Plan to Spur Growth Away From Haiti's Capital

The lucid, far-reaching reconstruction guidelines that the Haitian government is scheduled to unveil on Wednesday at a donors’ conference at the United Nations should give all who care about Haiti’s future cause for hope.

By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF

Even as outsiders feel sympathy for Haiti’s suffering, they tend to look upon it as a country beyond saving.

Now there is a plan to do just that, and it is surprisingly convincing. The lucid, far-reaching reconstruction guidelines that the Haitian government is scheduled to unveil on Wednesday at a donors’ conference at the United Nations should give all who care about Haiti’s future cause for hope.

March 24, 2010

John Stanton Envisions Copper-Free Haiti

Speaking at the International CTIA Wireless Show today, Trilogy Chairman John Stanton described the role of wireless technology in recovery efforts in Haiti and unveiled his vision for transforming Haiti – the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere – into the world’s first truly wireless nation.

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Speaking at the International CTIA Wireless Show today, Trilogy Chairman John Stanton described the role of wireless technology in recovery efforts in Haiti and unveiled his vision for transforming Haiti – the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere – into the world’s first truly wireless nation.

March 11, 2010

Haiti's $14billion Dollar Vision of a Caribbean paradise

Haiti’s President went to the White House yesterday with a vision of a Caribbean paradise waiting to be rebuilt after January’s catastrophic earthquake — and a price tag that could rise to $14 billion (£9 billion).

President Préval and his Prime Minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, are in Washington with a sales pitch on which their country depends — but which depends, in turn, on persuading recession-hit donors that the corruption that has bedevilled Haiti for generations can at last be overcome.

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