Partners In Health has been an important organization in post-earthquake Haiti—a key to its success is listening to what the communities want, rather than telling them what they need.
Haiti: After the Quake
 |
 A health facility in rural Haiti has a program to detect and treat cancer, but a big challenge persists: How can they encourage Haitians to get cancer screening and treatments before it’s too late? |
 USAID's food aid program to earthquake-devastated Haiti gave a nice $140 million boost to American farmers; it did no good at all for their Haitian counterparts. |
 It is not as if teenage prostitution didn’t exist in Haiti before the January 2010 earthquake that left 1.5 million displaced, tens of thousands of them living in haphazardly-placed tents in scatte |
 As Haitians rebuild after the devastating January 2010 earthquake, local journalists are reconstructing their identity within the country by learning new standards and ethics of objective reporting. |
 A new study predicts there could be 11,000 deaths in Haiti attributed to cholera infections between March and November of 2011, but NGOs aren't offering any lasting solutions to the problem. |
 Up to a million Haitians, and descendants of Haitians, are being affected by a new law about citizenship in the Dominican Republic. Many could face deportation, despite being born in the country. |
 Thousands of Haitians remain in camps in Port-au-Prince after a massive earthquake hit last year. Now, 16 months after the disaster, young girls are being forced to have sex in order to survive. |
 There has been an enormous outpouring of aid to Haiti, but how much impact is it actually making? |
 When we met Jesula in May 2010, she was broken. She was 22, HIV positive, with a toddler and another baby on the way. |
 A man discusses why and how rape occurs in Champs de Mars, one of the most dangerous camps for those displaced by Haiti's quake. |
 The relatively smooth course of the March 20th presidential election in Haiti has brought cautious optimism about the prospects for political stability in the country. |