The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering whether to use just one of the usual two doses of a cholera vaccine in Haiti to vaccinate more people, albeit with a shorter protection period.
In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a group of U.S. senators wants to know whether the government is willing to blame the U.N. for cholera in Haiti.
Aid officials say up to 90 percent of southern Haiti has been destroyed since Hurricane Matthew struck the impoverished nation…
After Hurricane Matthew slashed through the impoverished nation of Haiti on Tuesday, leaving death and destruction its wake, the country…
U.S. President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered their final speeches to the U.N. General Assembly this week,…
The United Nations is finally starting to own up to its complicity in the spread of cholera in Haiti. The deputy…
Medical staff across Haiti have entered the fourth month of a nationwide strike, which has spread to more than a dozen state-run hospitals and led to countless deaths as hospitals scramble to provide care for neglected patients. In a country that has already been battling a cholera epidemic, widespread malnutrition and this year’s outbreak of the Zika virus, the nationwide strike has posed a new public health challenge that Haiti’s medical system isn’t equipped to deal with
When it comes to the possibility that the United Nations might claim responsibility for causing the outbreak of cholera in…
Criticism of the American Red Cross’ management of 2010 Haitian earthquake response continues to fall on the organization. A blistering…
Cancer kills more people in low- and middle-income countries than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. And for people in the…