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

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...

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.

Daily Rounds: The Bush Miscarriage; Demanding Dr. Famous; Cholera Hits Port-Au-Prince; Romney's Repudiation

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...

Local Coverage

Mar 5, 2010

Marie Honore Milice and her children are homeless after coming to the Boston area following Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. The family is staying at a hotel in Woburn. (Bianca Vazquez Tones/WBUR)

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...

Local Coverage

02:20Mar 3, 2010

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.

Local Coverage

02:51Mar 1, 2010

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A $1 Pill That Could Save Thousands Of Lives: Research Suggests Cheap Way To Avoid U.N.-Caused Cholera

Outbreak On Trial: Who's To Blame For Bringing Disease Into A Country?

How Twitter, Social Media Helped Detect Cholera In Haiti

One Year Later: Cholera Keeps Rising In Haiti, Vaccine On The Way

MGH Returns To Haiti To Fight Cholera

One Year Later, Haitian Quake Victims Struggle For Financial Independence

Paul Farmer's 5 Fixes To Slow Haiti's Cholera Epidemic

Cholera In Haiti: New Cases, Deaths Up Sharply

Daily Rounds: The Bush Miscarriage; Demanding Dr. Famous; Cholera Hits Port-Au-Prince; Romney's Repudiation

Cholera In Haiti: Cases Stabilize But Conditions Remain Desperate

Cholera Outbreak In Haiti: An Update From Partners In Health

Aftershocks: Deadly Cholera Outbreak In Haiti

Schools Want Federal Funds For Enrolling Haitian Refugees

Boston Group Building Hospital In Haiti

Helping In Haiti: Caring For The Newly Disabled

Boston Medical Workers Prepare For Haiti's Unfamiliar Trauma

Haitian Poet Feels The 'Afterworld' In His Native Land

Poem: To Hear And To See Are Two Different Things, That's True

Haitian Earthquake Victims Struggle To Survive In Greater Boston

Listen: Quake Alters Viewpoint For Boston's Haitian Students