Haiti: Cholera Persists Into 2023 as Health System Struggles
The cholera outbreak that had begun in October 2022 persisted into 2023, with cases continuing to be reported across Port-au-Prince
The cholera outbreak that had begun in October 2022 persisted into 2023, with cases continuing to be reported across Port-au-Prince
Haiti’s cholera outbreak continued to claim lives through December 2022, with the death toll surpassing 300 as health authorities struggled
Cholera returned to Haiti with deadly force in October 2022, with an outbreak that quickly spread through communities whose water
Médecins Sans Frontières reported in 2022 that its medical teams in Port-au-Prince were treating unprecedented numbers of gunshot wound victims
Cholera, which had been reduced to very low case levels in Haiti after years of public health interventions, began resurging
Haiti’s already critically understaffed medical profession suffered further losses in 2021 as doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals fled the
Dr. Paul Farmer, the infectious disease specialist and anthropologist whose work in Haiti beginning in the 1980s had helped establish
Haiti’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, which finally got underway with an initial COVAX allocation of vaccines in mid-2021, faced the full
As wealthy nations rolled out COVID-19 vaccination campaigns at speed in early 2021, Haiti found itself almost entirely excluded from
Haiti’s network of community health workers — agents de santé communautaire who operated at the grassroots level, connecting households to