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Peanut crop growing hope in Haiti
The central plateau region of Haiti was largely spared from the earthquake's physical impact, but not from the economic devastation. Maurice Dubois takes a look at how Haiti's peanut crop is saving lives and creating new economic opportunities. CBS news story features PIH/Abbott partnership for new nourimanba plant.
Cholera in Haiti: From control to elimination
“There is no effective public water system in Haiti,” said Dr Louise Ivers, Chief of Mission for Partners In Health, a Boston based non-profit organisation, living in Haiti. “The river is the place where bathing, drinking and defecation all occur.”
Taylor Dobbs Mirebalais National Teaching Hospital nears completion
The 320-bed facility, located just outside downtown Mirebalais, is the result of a collaborative effort between the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) and Partners in Health, an American non-profit focused on international public health.
On solemn anniversary, Haiti on our minds
A new, state-of-the-art teaching hospital is rising in a town called Mirebalais. The hospital, at 180,000 square feet, will be the country’s largest health care facility and is scheduled to open later this year. The 320 bed facility will be run by Partners In Health, the Boston-based organization led by Dr. Paul Farmer.
6 easy ways to help Haiti
Can a goat help Haiti, two years after a devastating earthquake? Catherine Russi has high hopes for hers. For $60 to Partners In Health, help a Haitian family boost food production, ending malnutrition.
Can a Vaccine Cure Haiti’s Cholera?
Those at Partners In Health (PIH), a health care organization, say that imperfect efficacy should not matter in Haiti. "If you have a vaccine that was about 80 percent effective compared to 0 percent effective of drinking stool-laden water, which would you choose?" asks Paul Farmer, co-founder of the organization and a professor at Harvard University.
Ornate Back Bay pews are reborn in Haiti
The gift, scores of solid oak pews that provided seating for decades to hundreds of parishioners at St. Cecilia in the Back Bay, has been set up throughout the fledgling National Teaching Hospital in Mirebalais, a sprawling, high-tech medical center that will provide beds to 320 patients when it opens later this year.
Haiti’s “unnatural disaster’’
Haiti doesn’t only need short-term aid. Every aspect of Haiti’s recovery – from acquiring food security to providing health care – requires long-term support grounded in a rights-based approach to development.
Thousands of Haitians march demanding jobs, housing
Earlier this week, Paul Farmer, a deputy to Clinton in his role as U.N. Special Envoy, unveiled what will be the country’s largest hospital when construction is completed in the spring. The privately funded $16 million, 320-bed hospital is in the city of Mirebalais, 30 miles north of Port-au-Prince. It expects to employ 900 Haitian clinical and support staff while treating about 500 patients a day.
Haiti earthquake: Two years on
It is the second anniversary of the earthquake which devastated Haiti killing 300,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. Some progress has been made towards rebuilding the shattered capital. The BBC's Laura Trevelyan interviews Paul Farmer from Haiti where 500,000 people are still living in tents.
On Second Anniversary of Earthquake, Cholera Continues to Cripple Haiti
Dr. Louise Ivers, one of the report's authors and a senior health and policy adviser for Boston-based Partners In Health, says she and her colleague interviewed community leaders to see if they could learn any lessons about how the disease broke out. "This is such an obvious disease. It's really not that difficult for people to remember the first person who became so unwell."
Thurs. 1/12/12 Haiti, Two Years Later
It’s been two years since a devastating earthquake leveled much of Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands and injuring and displacing millions more. Though the situation remains dire, many have moved on. We’ll talk to one local couple, Jim and Karen Ansara, who hasn’t forgotten.
Boston Magazines’s Boston Daily Haiti: By The Numbers
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, and the country is still in the process of rebuilding. Local non-profit Partners In Health (PIH) had been working in Haiti for 25 years when the earthquake struck, and in the past 24 months has been one of the leaders in the recovery effort. Here’s a look at what they faced, and how they’ve helped so far.
Walton Discusses Aftermath Of Haiti Quake
Melissa Block talks to David Walton of the nonprofit group Partners In Health about the two-year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. "I'm joined by Dr. David Walton of the non-profit group Partners In Health. He's directing the construction of a new hospital about 30 miles north of Port-au-Prince in Mirebalais."
Though world stood still, things moving forward in Haiti
Dr. Evan Lyon, 40, is a Harvard-trained physician and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. He's also the medical director of the Right to Health Care Program for the international medical and social services organization Partners In Health.
Two years after quake, signs of progress in Haiti
“Recovery is here. It is painfully slow, it is agonizing to watch, but it is recovery,” said Paul Farmer, a Harvard physician who has spent three decades in Haiti and whose group, Partners In Health, is opening a modern, 320-bed public teaching hospital an hour north of the Haitian capital.
Tracking Down Haiti’s First Cholera Case
Two Boston-based doctors think they’ve identified the first Haitian who caught cholera and then spread the disease to others after an earthquake hit the island two years ago this week. Cholera has taken the lives of some 7,000 Haitians and sickened about a half million more. The details of what are thought to be the first case are in a new study Dr. Louise Ivers has co-authored with David Walton.
Aid Group Thinks It Found First Haiti Cholera Case
Partners In Health, which works in Haiti, reported the case Monday in a study it did on the outbreak and published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Officials say the cholera outbreak that began in 2010 has killed 7,000 people and sickened nearly 500,000.
Haiti: Cholera Epidemic’s First Victim Identified as River Bather Who Forsook Clean Water
The man, whose name was not revealed in the report, in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, was known as the village “moun fou” — Creole for “crazy person” — said the authors, who work for Partners In Health, a Boston group associated with Dr. Paul E. Farmer that has provided free health care in Haiti since 1987.
Cholera cripples Haiti, two years after quake
In February, Haiti's Health Ministry, with help from Partners in Health, a U.S.-based aid organization, will begin vaccinating 100,000 people in a Port-au-Prince slum and a rural commuity with an oral cholera vaccine, said Louise Ivers, senior health and policy adviser for Partners In Health.
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