The scale of the damage wrought on the population of Haiti by the recent earthquakes has resulted in almost unprecedented efforts to render aid to a disaster-stricken populace. After the immediate aftermath of the earthquakes, it is essential that aid work continues so that the infrastructure can be rebuilt, displaced people re-housed, food supplies unhindered and medical care optimised. This a...

The world is becoming more interconnected with a need for a global approach to healthcare. Brown University has remained a leader in global health through clinical service, education, cutting edge research and dedication to the development of sustainable global partnerships. We describe two programs from the ground up in Haiti and Ukraine, and the important lessons learned in their development....

During the management of the crisis after the earthquake occurred in Haiti in 12 January 2010, Brazil played an important role on the efforts of humanitarian assistance. Based on bibliography and documents the paper presents the role played by Brazil with the focus on the humanitarian assistance as part of country’ foreign policy as an emerging power to increase the presence into the internatio...

Since 2000, countries have made substantial progress in reducing under-five mortality, but Haiti, an impoverished country the Latin America and Caribbean region, faces major health challenges, including a high level of child mortality. However, few studies focused on analysing trends mortality rate (U5MR), determinants geographical disparities within country. This study analyses trend U5MR Hait...

In reply to the letter from Pape et al., our goal was to trace the pathway of a pandemic with the most powerful methods currently available, not to assign blame in any way. Haiti deserves only compassion for its longstanding HIV epidemic and admiration for its successes in battling HIV/AIDS. Our conclusions were not based only on five archival sequences from Haitian-American patients as Pape et...

This article presents an overview of the mental health response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Discussion includes consideration of complexities that relate to emergency response, mental health and psychosocial response in disasters, long-term planning of systems of care, and the development of safe, effective, and culturally sound mental health services in the Haitian context. This information ...

On January 12, 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck Haiti, affecting approximately 3.5 million people. As of this writing, information about casualty figures is provisional; however, reports indicate potentially more than 100 000 have died, and an even greater number are homeless with destruction of critical infrastructure, including basic utilities, transportation, com...

INTRODUCTION: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a public health problem in Haiti. Thus, the emigration of Haitians to Brazil is worrisome because of the risk for LF re-emergence. METHODS: Blood samples of Haitian immigrants, aged ≥18 years, who emigrated to Manaus (Brazilian Amazon), were examined using thick blood smears, membrane blood filtration, and immunochromatography. RESULTS: Of the 244...

InterMedia has launched its Haiti Mobile Money Tracker (HMMT) Project with the mission of providing robust research and analysis into the emerging mobile money (m-money) services market. There is only a limited amount of consumer information publicly available to development practitioners to understand how Haitians are using these relatively new services as well as their access to financial ser...

The early cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in the 1960s and 1970s in Congo-Kinshasa (Zaire), Rwanda and Burundi are reviewed. These countries appear to be the source of the HIV-1 group M epidemic, which then spread outwards to neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda in the east, and Congo-Brazzaville in the west. Further spread to H...