Haiti

Will Haiti Have Its Own Livestrong Bracelet? (Time.com)

November 17th, 2010

Time.com - A group of American textile entrepreneurs are producing made-in-Haiti bracelets that have caught the eye of Bill Clinton and other philanthropists

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Haiti unrest hampers desperate fight against cholera (Reuters)

November 17th, 2010

A child suffering cholera symptoms is checked by a doctor at the Doctors Without Borders temporary hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010. Thousands of people have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever and hundreds have died. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Reuters - Anti-U.N. riots in the Haitian city of Cap-Haitien have disrupted international efforts to tackle a spreading cholera epidemic, increasing the risk of infection and death for tens of thousands…

Haiti Protesters Blame U.N. for Cholera; Presidential Election at Risk? (Time.com)

November 16th, 2010

Time.com - Haitians demonstrate and riot as they blame U.N. troops from Nepal for the cholera outbreak. Is there a scheme to disrupt the Nov. 28 presidential vote?

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“Spoilers” trying to sabotage Haiti elections: U.N. (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

A combination photograph shows Haitians passing near a damaged clothing store after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, on February 13, 2010 (bottom) and seven months later on September 30, 2010 (top). REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/FilesReuters - The United Nations on Tuesday blamed political and criminal “spoilers” in Haiti for attacks on U.N. peacekeepers, saying those agitators sought to sabotage elections this month by manipulating…

Haiti rioters attack U.N. troops, one protester killed (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

A Haitian resident holds his relative who is suffering from cholera at St-Catherine hospital in the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince November 12, 2010. REUTERS/St-Felix EvensReuters - Protesters in Haiti, blaming United Nations troops for a cholera epidemic that has killed hundreds of people, attacked U.N. peacekeepers in two cities on Monday.


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Haiti: Where Building a Hospital Can be Illegal (Time.com)

November 14th, 2010

Time.com - Haiti’s government finds itself caught between the need to house more than a million people displaced by the earthquake, and the rights of landowners

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Some 200,000 at risk of cholera in Haiti, U.N. says (Reuters)

November 12th, 2010

A Haitian resident suffering from cholera waits for help on a street at the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince November 10, 2010. REUTERS/St-Felix EvensReuters - Up to 200,000 Haitians could contract cholera as the outbreak which has already killed 800 is set to spread across the battered Caribbean nation of nearly 10 million,…

Haiti cholera toll at 800, U.S. risk seen low (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

A Haitian resident suffering from cholera waits for help on a street at the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince November 10, 2010. REUTERS/St-Felix EvensReuters - The death toll in Haiti’s cholera epidemic climbed on Thursday to 800, according to an American medical expert, but U.S. health authorities said the risk of widespread transmission…

Haiti cholera toll at 800, worry for U.S.: CDC expert (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

A Haitian nurse treats a cholera victim at the Charles Colimon hospital in Petite Riviere. Aid groups fought Wednesday to halt the spread of cholera in Haiti's teeming capital, where makeshift camps crammed with earthquake survivors are ripe ground for the epidemic to take hold.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)Reuters - The death toll in Haiti’s cholera epidemic climbed on Thursday, reaching 800, according to a U.S. medical expert who expressed concern about risk of transmission to the United…

Cholera deaths in hard-hit Haiti city add to toll (Reuters)

November 10th, 2010

A Haitian nurse treats a cholera victim at the Charles Colimon hospital in Petite Riviere. Aid groups fought Wednesday to halt the spread of cholera in Haiti's teeming capital, where makeshift camps crammed with earthquake survivors are ripe ground for the epidemic to take hold.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)Reuters - A three-week-old cholera epidemic that has killed more than 640 people in Haiti is spreading quickly in the northwest coastal city of Gonaives, authorities said on Wednesday.


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