Haiti
A $1 Pill That Could Save Thousands Of Lives: Research Suggests Cheap Way To Avoid U.N.-Caused Cholera
Researchers say a single U.N. peacekeeper may have introduced cholera to Haiti in 2010, touching off the most explosive cholera epidemic of modern times. New research says future tragedies could...
Outbreak On Trial: Who's To Blame For Bringing Disease Into A Country?
If an international agency (like the United Nations) introduces a devastating disease (like cholera) to a country (like Haiti) should it be held accountable?
How Twitter, Social Media Helped Detect Cholera In Haiti
How Twitter, Social Media Helped Detect Cholera In Haiti
One Year Later: Cholera Keeps Rising In Haiti, Vaccine On The Way
One Year Later: Cholera Keeps Rising In Haiti
MGH Returns To Haiti To Fight Cholera
The cholera crisis is surging again in Haiti, and a team from Massachusetts General Hospital has just arrived to help out. WBUR spoke with a MGH nurse about the team's...
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One Year Later, Haitian Quake Victims Struggle For Financial Independence
Last year, WBUR profiled a woman who was able to come here because her baby is a U.S. citizen. We wanted to see where she is now, because we thought...
Paul Farmer's 5 Fixes To Slow Haiti's Cholera Epidemic
Five interventions to slow Haiti's cholera epidemic
Cholera In Haiti: New Cases, Deaths Up Sharply
Cholera cases and deaths spike in Haiti.
Cholera In Haiti: Cases Stabilize But Conditions Remain Desperate
Partners In Health gives an update on the cholera epidemic in Haiti: cases are steady but conditions remain desperate.
Cholera Outbreak In Haiti: An Update From Partners In Health
An update on the spread of Cholera in Haiti
Aftershocks: Deadly Cholera Outbreak In Haiti
A deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti.
Schools Want Federal Funds For Enrolling Haitian Refugees
Boston and Brockton could be in line to receive federal funds to cover the cost of enrolling Haitian refugees.
Boston Group Building Hospital In Haiti
The $15 million Partners In Health facility being built in the town of Mirebalais will offer clinical facilities not available at any public site in the country, including an intensive...
Helping In Haiti: Caring For The Newly Disabled
A Boston non-profit group is heading to Haiti on Saturday to help earthquake victims adjust to what could be life-long disabilities.
Boston Medical Workers Prepare For Haiti's Unfamiliar Trauma
Today, more Boston-based medical teams are leaving to help earthquake victims in Haiti. It's a first-time trip for many of them — and they may not be prepared for what...
Haitian Poet Feels The 'Afterworld' In His Native Land
Jean-Dany Joachim, a native of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, and now the "poet populist" of Cambridge, has just returned from his first visit to his home nation since the quake. He...
Poem: To Hear And To See Are Two Different Things, That's True
Jean-Dany Joachim, the "poet populist" of Cambridge, recently returned from a family visit to earthquake-stricken Haiti, where he saw Port-au-Prince "with its guts open." Joachim composed this poem about his...
Haitian Earthquake Victims Struggle To Survive In Greater Boston
Most people affected by Haiti's earthquake in January aren't eligible to come to the United States. But one group that has managed to come to Boston has social service providers...
Listen: Quake Alters Viewpoint For Boston's Haitian Students
As a Haitian student, the January earthquake has changed the way Hyde Park's Sabrina Isaac sees her life. She shares an essay on the subject.