A Medical team was recently sent to the rotten land in southeast haiti. Womens prenatal teaching was done in Lacule. [Show as slideshow]
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Cholera care fails to reach rural Haitians Nature.com – David Cyranoski – January 19, 2011 Last week, three months into Haiti’s cholera epidemic, local and international health agencies noted with cheer the news that the number of cholera cases in all ten of Haiti’s departments seems to have either reached a plateau or started to fall. But there...
Learn More“A tourist got off a plane in Port-au-Prince, told immigration officials he was Miles Graham, 35, a dentist from Omaha. The Haitians looked right past his white cap, tight woolen shirt, dark glasses and absurd phony mustache and said: ‘Welcome, Marlon Brando.’” The Time magazine People item that ran Sept. 28, 1959, was light on intimate details. Brando was in the...
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Who Cares About Haiti ? The Wall Street Journal, By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY, November 21, 2010 Ten months after a magnitude 8.0 earthquake killed more than 200,000 Haitians and destroyed an already decrepit infrastructure, some 1.3 million impoverished souls are still barely surviving in tent cities around the country. Living conditions are deplorable and after...
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Here is an update, one of the most true I have read about the true situation on the ground in Haiti. Without help this will not be stopped until thousands more have died. Please pray for these people. As the cholera outbreak continues to ravage through Haiti, killing hundreds and inciting terror and riots throughout the country, I’m afraid I may have more bad news....
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Cholera is hitting the remote regions of Haiti too. Currently Aid for Haiti has a remote medical team of doctors in the mountains of central Haiti. They report widespread cholera death and disease in this region. Working out of Potino, a small village, they have seen and treated multiple serious cases of cholera. One case in particular sticks out. “She was the...
Learn MoreProtests linked to the outbreak of cholera in Haiti have spread to parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Police fired tear gas as demonstrators set up barricades and threw rocks at United Nations vehicles. On Monday, clashes between residents and UN troops in the north had left two people dead. Some Haitians blame UN peacekeepers from Nepal for bringing cholera to the...
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During the morning hours of a recent clinic day in Port au Prince, a young man limped up. “Im 15 years old now” he told us with a shy smile. As he conveyed his story, he told us of the day of the earthquake when the roof of the house he was staying in came down on top of him. “It landed on my leg” he said. He told the story of the terror and pain...
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ST. DENIS, Haiti — Three medical workers arrived at a clinic near here over the weekend on a mission to deliver supplies and spread the word about preventing a deadly cholera outbreak from getting worse after the torrential rains brought by Hurricane Tomas. Multimedia Several of them said, yes, they drank water from a river known to be contaminated with the...
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Some of the first images showing the effects of the hurricane in...
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Dr. Van Middlesworth worked for over 60 years at the University of Tennessee medical school. At the age of 90 he became the inspiration and driving force of AFH’s work in iodine deficiency. He is a inspiration to all of those who meet him. Please take a moment to read these two articles about this man. #1: Buck Rodgers of the 21st century #2: A science lab closes,...
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Our long time friend and member of the AFH Board in Haiti, Pastor Bruce’ s work in Fon Doux. Please remember him in prayer as his village will soon be hit with the hurricane. A vision for the future: Haitian community offers an example FOND DOUX, Haiti – What a difference a suitcase full of seeds can make. It was just after Hurricane Gustave ravaged Haiti...
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