In this brief, the World Food Programme (WFP) is introducing its flagship integrated climate-risk management approach, the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4), to address both the climatic and non-climatic drivers of vulnerability in Haiti. WFP Haiti is combining a set of integrated risk management strategies, including access to microinsurance, as …
“CHOLERA most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others.” So said Titus Salt, a Victorian wool baron who worked to put an end to cholera in Yorkshire. It was cholera, as much as the great …
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 …
A storm unleashed torrential rains, mudslides and flooding in Haiti, killing at least 10 people, Haitian officials said on Tuesday after thunderstorms pounded several Caribbean countries. The heavy rainfall across the region, which began over the weekend, comes after the June 1 start of the Atlantic hurricane season and as …
Elizabeth Hausler aims to bring quake-resistant construction to the developing world : Interview. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028138.300-quake-engineer-earthquakes-dont-kill-buildings-do.html
An increase in new cholera patients in rural Haiti has raised concern that the outbreak may be starting to surge again with the spring rainy season, a medical aid group based in the United States said Wednesday. Health experts in Haiti warned in January when the cholera outbreak began to …
In October 2010, a virulent South Asian strain of El Tor cholera began to spread in Haiti. Interventions have included treatment of cases and improved sanitation. Use of cholera vaccines would likely have further reduced morbidity and mortality, but such vaccines are in short supply and little is known about …
This report analyzes how the humanitarian community and the emerging volunteer and technical communities worked together in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and recommends ways to improve coordination between these two groups in future emergencies.
On the anniversary of Haiti's devastating quake, Nicholas Ambraseys and Roger Bilham calculate that 83% of all deaths from building collapse in earthquakes over the past 30 years occurred in countries that are anomalously corrupt.
Rory Carroll IN RUINS: A January 2010 file picture that shows earthquake rubble in Port-au-Prince. In 2011, nothing much appears to have changed.- Dithering by the government and a lack of co-ordination between aid agencies and donors have crippled rebuilding efforts in Haiti, leaving the country in ruins a year …
Poor sanitation system makes Haiti vulnerable to a disease that first swept the world more than 150 years ago Today, cholera sickens 3 million to 5 million people a year, killing up to 130,000 of them, said Peter Hotez, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, who …
Britain said on Saturday it would help pay for more than 1,000 medical staff to fight a raging cholera epidemic in Haiti. The outbreak in the impoverished Caribbean nation has killed more than 1,400 people in five weeks and the death toll is climbing by dozens each day. The United …
Earthquake-hit Haiti escaped a fresh disaster threatened by Hurricane Tomas, but the storm caused flooding that killed eight people and increased the contagion threat from a deadly cholera epidemic, the government and aid workers said on Saturday. Amid widespread relief that the hurricane largely spared crowded camps in the Haitian …
“It is like we are bobbing along on the waves of the ocean, waiting to be saved,” reads one letter. In the last two weeks of September, thousands of Haitians displaced by earthquake have vented their concerns, depositing impassioned pleas for help in new suggestion boxes at camps in the …
Workshop>> Disaster Films • Cuba Five girls and five boys are participating in a workshop to remember the hurricane that devastated Gibara, their hometown in Eastern Cuba, two years ago. They are filming images to make a video message for Haiti’s earthquake-struck children. The material produced by the workshop, part …
Are earthquakes becoming more frequent? This is a question that every seismologist is used to. I was asked it 30 years ago. Thanks to large quakes in Haiti and Chile
The earthquake that occurred on 12 January 2010 in the vicinity of the boundary of the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates devastated the island of Haiti with tragic consequences. One of history
A small earthquake struck northern Haiti, collapsing an apartment building and killing at least three persons, a UN spokesman said. Residents said the tremor struck Haiti
