One year after a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, women and girls staying in the country’s refugee camps live without adequate food, water, shelter and medical care. And when the darkness falls, the rapists come.
According to a report from Amnesty International, precarious living conditions and a lack of security in and around the camps have left thousands of women and girls as young as two vulnerable to sexual predators.
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Port-au-Prince — A total of 2,350 people have died and 104,614 have been sickened so far in the cholera epidemic besieging Haiti since mid-October, authorities said yesterday.
According to figures supplied by the Public Health and Population Ministry, in the last three days 130 people have died from cholera
around the country.
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More than 2,000 people have died from Haiti’s cholera outbreak and almost 90,000 cases have been recorded, the latest health ministry figures show.
More than six weeks after Haiti’s first cholera outbreak in more than a century erupted in late October, data showed deaths continue to climb at a steady rate.
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AFP – The death toll from Haiti’s cholera epidemic rose to 1,603 on Thursday, up from 1,415 just two days previously, according to the health ministry.
The outbreak has infected 69,776 people since it was first detected in mid-October, of whom 29,871 have been hospitalized, it said.
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Clashes between rival political factions left two people dead in Haiti as growing violence and a raging cholera epidemic threatened to derail key post-quake elections.
The victims were shot dead late on Monday in Beaumont, a small town in south-western Haiti, after supporters of leading candidates Jude Celestin and Charles Henri Baker squared off, armed with firearms, rocks and bottles.
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Port-Au-Prince, Haiti — The death toll has risen to at least 1,344 in the cholera outbreak in Haiti that has sickened nearly 57,000 people, the Haitian government said Monday.
The announcement came as international health officials predicted that the scale of Haiti’s cholera epidemic will exceed initial estimates of 200,000 over coming months.
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Clashes have erupted between United Nations forces and hundreds of stone-throwing Haitians in Port-au-Prince after unrest targeting peacekeepers blamed for the cholera outbreak spread to the capital.
There had been fears violence could break out after protest organisers called a mass demonstration outside the health ministry for people to show their anger about cholera and the UN force, known as MINUSTAH.
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Haiti. Two men were killed Monday in northern Haiti in clashes with United Nations peacekeepers, as anger turned to violence over a cholera outbreak that has claimed nearly 1,000 lives, officials said.
The body of a 20-year-old man was found in front of a base of the UN Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in Quartier-Morin, on the outskirts of the country’s second city of Cap-Haitien, local officials said.
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Health officials in Haiti are warning the deadly cholera outbreak, which has killed more than 900 people, is intensifying.
The disease has also infected at least 14,000 more people in the past month, but officials say that number could rise exponentially now the disease has reached the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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The United Nations has appealed for $164 million to tackle an outbreak of cholera in Haiti.
It is worried that without the money, the epidemic may run out of control.
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The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Haiti has hit 643, as the epidemic continues to spread across the flood-stricken country.
According to the Haitian health ministry, nearly 10,000 people have been so far diagnosed with the disease and are receiving treatment.
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THE toll in an outbreak of cholera in Haiti has surged to 643 deaths with nearly 10,000 people being treated in hospital for the disease, the public health ministry said today.
Yesterday alone, some 46 deaths were registered in the northern region of Artibonite, where the outbreak first occurred and where the town of Gonaives is situated, the ministry said.
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The first confirmed cholera death in the Haitian capital is fuelling concerns about the dangers of a major outbreak in Port-au-Prince.
Health officials are reporting that more cases are emerging in the slums and makeshift camps around the crowded city.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – At least 20 people died when Hurricane Tomas brushed past Haiti, more than double the number initially reported, Haiti’s civil protection department said Monday.
Seven others remain missing and dozens were injured. More than 30,000 people remain in shelters and Tomas left nearly 6,000 families homeless. Others, already homeless from the Jan. 12 earthquake, lost their tents.
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Video Report: Haiti has only received a small portion of aid pledged to it. What’s the hold up?
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – 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 capital housing 1.3 million quake survivors, the international humanitarian operation was turning its attention back to the two-week-old epidemic, which has killed just over 500 people and sickened more than 7,000.
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