As violence and insecurity forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in Port-au-Prince in recent months, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) increased efforts to provide water, sanitation, and hygiene services (WASH) to people in makeshift camps across the city. Since fighting between armed groups and the government surged in February 2024, […]
Read More… from Haiti: People fleeing violence in capital urgently need water and sanitation
Since the end of February, Port-au-Prince has been engulfed in unprecedented violence, cutting off the Haitian capital from the outside world following the closure of the airport and ports. The escalating insecurity has severely disrupted the medical operations of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has not been able to import any supplies since […]
Read More… from Closed ports, empty shelves: Haiti urgently needs medical supplies
The violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has seen a new and dramatic increase since Feb. 28 2024, with armed groups attacking new parts of the city. This surge in conflict, occurring frequently in residential zones, has deeply affected the community and has seriously disrupted the healthcare system, which is struggling to remain functional. At Doctors Without […]
Read More… from Haiti: Healthcare Navigates New Heights of Conflict in Port-au-Prince
The first survey in more than a decade to examine the impact of violence on mortality in Haiti reveals the extreme levels of violence experienced by residents of Cité Soleil, the largest slum in the capital, Port-au-Prince. The retrospective mortality survey was carried out by Epicentre, the epidemiology and medical research arm of Doctors Without […]
Read More… from Port-au-Prince, Haiti: New survey reveals extreme levels of violence