In 1982, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) incorrectly inferred that Haitians were at increased risk for acquiring HIV (1), a generalization that resulted in unprecedented national stigmatization. The association was later dropped, but Haiti’s economy never recovered. Gilbert et al. (2) again link HIV’s origins and Haiti, stating that ‘‘subtype B likely moved fr...

D C ust before 5 PM on January 12, 2010, a 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, a Caribbean nation that hares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. The epicenter was approxiately 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. Port-au-Prince is the ountry’s largest city and is an overcrowded, sprawling urban center with a population efore the earthquake of approximately 3 mi...

In this paper, the author describes the process of converting from a microfinance institution (MFI) to a regulated bank in Haiti. The literature was helpful as far as some of the procedures were concerned, and the MFI was able to use the recommendations. However there were major omissions in those recommendations from an infrastructure perspective. Using a VPN was a major saving for the MFI in ...

Mental health is an important aspect of public health after a disaster. This article describes what is known and what remains to be learned regarding the mental health impact of the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti. Public health surveillance efforts in Haiti and the United States in the first 2 months after the earthquake are described. Challenges in clinical assessment and public health ...

(isolate RND19188), even though she had no distinct symptoms of cholera. The source of infection for the woman and child was unclear but was assumed to be related to eating fruit rinsed in tap water while in the city of Vrindavan in India. Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analysis based on high-quality orthologous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (hqSNPs) among 75 V. cholerae genomes showed that ...

As the title of this introduction implies, there are few traces of hope and optimism to be found in Haiti’s current situation. If the unavoidable problems of rural communities in a nation of peasants such as Haiti are left unaddressed, and if the nation continues to rely on the standards of the old police state as a model for the new national police, Haiti’s transition toward democracy will be ...

It is estimated that Haiti has the highest incidence of cervical cancer in the Western Hemisphere. There are currently no sustainable and affordable cervical cancer screening programs in Haiti. The current status of screening services and knowledge of health care professionals was assessed through a Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices survey on cervical cancer screening and prevention. It was d...

Even before the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010, gender based violence (GBV) was rife throughout the country. Twenty-six percent of all women and girls over the age of 15 experienced GBV (Government of Haiti, 2006). In addition to traditional norms that condoned men's right to control and beat their female partners, and the perception of violence as an acceptable method of conf...

Haiti, one of the world's five poorest nations, gets international attention because of the number of refugees who leave by boat in search of a better future. The 80,000 inhabitants of Ile de la Gonave are neglected, even in Haiti--there is no government medical post, and facilities in the health posts run by missions are minimal. Typhoid and cholera epidemics threaten the island. Médecins Sans...