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Medical Workers Say Haiti Needs Money Now To Recover

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Medical officials are predicting that cholera will become a way of life in Haiti over the next few years, and that the disease could kill as many people as the January 12th earthquake did. Ten months after that earthquake, reconstruction has barely begun. And while more than $1 billion in  U.S. emergency aid has reached Haiti, large installments of the $1.5 billion in long-term aid have not reached Haiti. The State Department says Haiti still has to prove the money won't be stolen or misused. Dr. Joia Mukherjee is medical director of the non-profit health care organization, Partners in Health, and she thinks the U.S. should send that money to the Haitian government now.

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