He led Haiti’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic after cutting its death rate from waterborne cholera by more than 50 percent. Now, Dr. Jean William “Bill” Pape has become a victim of his country’s ...
Is Haiti’s health sector on life support or death row? A recent Miami Herald article on the challenges faced by physicians, doctors and other medical personnel in Haiti, where violence by a consortium ...
This is Dr. Yvens Laborde's first dispatch from Haiti, filed Monday. He finally arrived in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday afternoon. Today has been a difficult and challenging day. We started before dawn ...
On Friday afteronon, Dr. Yvens Laborde reports from Port au Prince for the first time in two days: I'm concerned about the lack of fuel available to operate necessary medical equipment. I've been ...
In Haiti, where the battle against the virus that causes AIDS has been hard fought, Dr. Marie-Marcelle H. Deschamps knows that women are key: give a woman a job, she once said, and watch her not only ...
Doctors Without Borders is an international medical humanitarian organization that provides emergency medical aid in crisis zones around the world. Ongoing violence in Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince, ...
Even before a destructive alliance of armed gangs began burning hospitals, health clinics and pharmacies in Haiti in a month-long siege of Port-au-Prince, the country’s health sector was in critical ...
In the weeks since the Jan. 12 earthquake, several University-affiliated physicians have gone to Haiti, providing first-wave emergency care, while those on campus continue to raise funds to support ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday that ongoing violence in the capital of Haiti has forced it to permanently close its Port-au-Prince emergency care center, which had ...
Many hospitals were destroyed in the earthquake — and medical supplies are scarce. The nonprofit group Partners in Health has been treating the injured from Port-au-Prince at its hospital in the city ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday that ongoing violence in the capital of Haiti has ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday that ongoing violence in the capital of Haiti has forced it to permanently close its Port-au-Prince emergency care center, which had been ...