Following the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, a plan was initiated to provide massive improvements to the sanitation and drinking water infrastructure in order to eliminate cholera from the island of Hispaniola by 2023. Six years and a half billion dollars later, there is little evidence that any substantial improvements have been implemented; with increasing evidence that cholera has become en...

BACKGROUND Although cholera has been present in Latin America since 1991, it had not been epidemic in Haiti for at least 100 years. Recently, however, there has been a severe outbreak of cholera in Haiti. METHODS We used third-generation single-molecule real-time DNA sequencing to determine the genome sequences of 2 clinical Vibrio cholerae isolates from the current outbreak in Haiti, 1 strai...

A catastrophic confluence of factors contributed to the rapid spread of cholera in Haiti following its introduction in late 2010. The outbreak is now the largest in modern history to affect a single country; cases from Haiti comprised nearly half of the cholera cases reported worldwide in 2012. Although cases of cholera related to this outbreak have occurred in the Dominican Republic, the Unite...

Malaria continues to persist in Haiti, with 17,583 reported cases in 2015. The island of Hispaniola, the last locale of malaria in the Caribbean, recently adopted a bi-national agreement between the Dominican Republic and Haiti with the goal of eliminating malaria by 2020. In January 2015, the Laboratoire National de Santé Publique and Henry Ford Health System, in close collaboration with the D...

Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a mosquitoborne parasitic infection that causes lymphedema, elephantiasis, and hydrocele. Haiti is one of only four countries left in the Americas where transmission of lymphatic filariasis still occurs. The National Program to Eliminate LF (NPELF) was started in Haiti in 2000, and by 2005 a population of 1.6 million people in 24 communes, including the majority of ...

In 2010, Haiti suffered three devastating national emergencies: a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed over 200 000 and injured 300 000; a cholera outbreak that challenged recovery efforts and caused more deaths; and Hurricane Tomas, which brought additional destruction. In the aftermath, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reoriented its technical cooperation to face the myriad of new ...

Background: Little is known about how to introduce complex technologies like arthroscopy into low-income countries. Thus, we compared low- versus high-resource intensive methods of teaching basic arthroscopic skills in a randomized controlled trial in Haiti. Methods: Forty-eight Haitian orthopaedic surgeons and residents attending an orthopaedic conference in Haiti were block randomized to rec...

OBJECTIVE Hypertension is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease throughout the world. Little is known about the prevalence of hypertension in rural Haiti. Our study aims to estimate prevalence and knowledge of hypertension in Northern Haiti. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Four rural communities surrounding Milot, Haiti. PARTICIPANTS Participants (69 males, 106 females, 175 ...

Cholera continues to be an important cause of human infections, and outbreaks are often observed after natural disasters, such as the one following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Once the cholera outbreak was confirmed, rumors spread that the disease was brought to Haiti by a battalion of Nepalese soldiers serving as United Nations peacekeepers. This possible connection has never been confirmed....

The formal input supply sector has received little attention in developing nations, including Haiti. We interviewed store owners Haiti and collected information on the availability sources of inputs challenges facing vendors. Three large suppliers import most available to farmers. Second tier traders, mostly small stores that purchase from major suppliers, play a critical role making accessible...