Cholera was absent from the island of Hispaniola at least a century before an outbreak that began in Haiti in the fall of 2010. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis of clinical isolates from the Haiti outbreak and recent global travelers returning to the United States showed indistinguishable PFGE fingerprints. To better explore the genetic ancestry of the Haiti outbreak strain, we ...

The present article investigates the role of Haitian community radios in strengthening social mobilization, with the aim of supporting the actions undertaken in the field of public health in Haiti, based on the development of the Workshop for community radios, as part of the Tripartite Cooperation Brazil-Cuba-Haiti. The qualitative methodology is justified because of the study content, an analy...

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The 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti was one of the largest cholera epidemics ever recorded. To estimate the magnitude of the death toll during the first wave of the epidemic, we retrospectively conducted surveys at 4 sites in the northern part of Haiti. Overall, 70,903 participants were included; at all sites, the crude mortality rates (19.1-35.4 deaths/1,000 person-years) were higher than the e...

at 4:53 pm the earth shook, and at latitude 19° 00′ N, longitude 72° 25′ W, a Caribbean island lying between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean was struck by a 7.0 magnitude quake. When the earth settled, Haiti ranked 145th of 169 countries in the United Nations Human Development Index, the lowest in the Western Hemisphere; much of its capital, Port au Prince, was reduced to rubble ...

The article accompanies a project "Invisible" by photographer Agata Grzybowska. author runs parallel narrative of Grzybowska's visual practice and Maya Deren's presence in Haiti, her filming negotiating the "look" on Haiti its people.

THE CRITICAL IMPACT OF HYPERTENSION IN HAITI The article in this issue of the Journal of Clinical Hypertension by John Kenerson describes very well the enormity of the problem of hypertension in Haiti. It touches on the social, cultural, and environmental aspects of this problem and underscores its public health dimension. The article can be considered as an overseas echo of the previous declar...

In October 2010, cholera appeared in Haiti for the first time in nearly a century. The Secretary-General of the United Nations formed an Independent Panel to "investigate and seek to determine the source of the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti". To fulfill this mandate, the Panel conducted concurrent epidemiological, water and sanitation, and molecular analysis investigations. Our May 2011 findin...

On 1 December 2016, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon apologized for cholera epidemic in Haiti, an illness Nepalese peacekeepers brought with them upon arrival Haiti. After years of silence and denial from UN, finally established a "New Approach to Cholera Haiti," promising material assistance support victims through "victim-centered approach." Based on fieldwork conducted March 2017 communi...

PURPOSE We compared a cohort of Haitian immigrants with residents in Haiti with breast cancer (BC) to evaluate the effects of location on presentation, treatment, and outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHODS Participants were Haitian women with BC living in Miami who presented to the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital and women with BC living in Haiti who presented to the Innovating Health I...