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Starvation stalking rural Haitian children

Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Some Haitian children are seeing chronic malnourishment and even starvation in some areas due to the effects of four major windstorms, residents say. International aid workers and doctors last month airlifted 46 children on the brink of death from Haiti's Baie d'Orange region to hospitals in Port-au-Prince, with the emergency intervention coming after word arrived...

Haiti to host international AIDS event

Moldova.org (Free subscription) | yesterday

A ceremony for the opening of an AIDS memorial will take place next year in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, the Global Health Council said Monday.The international health group said in a news release that the opening ceremony of the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial will take place in Haiti in May 2009 as part of the ongoing effort to limit the disease's spread in the country and the rest...

• Haiti to host international AIDS event - Times of the Internet

"Bail-Out" Plan for Haiti

Crossed The Tiber (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008

In January, Prodigal Daughter and I will be heading down to Port-Au-Prince to hold a medical clinic for the parish of Sts . Simon and Jude. Though I have been to PAP many times over the past 12 years for medical missions, this will be the first time we are doing a medical clinic in the Catholic Church in Haiti. We are excited and thankful to God for the way He opened the doors for this opportunity...

UN mission funds public works projects in Haiti

Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008

New York.– The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) is providing $250,000 to fund two construction projects in the Central Plateau region of Haiti, one of the poorest regions in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.Some 2,500 people will be put to work over a period of six months on the construction of two roads as part of public works projects in Haiti.The International...

Haitian president vows to raze unsafe buildings

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti President Rene Preval says authorities will demolish unsafe buildings and improve urban planning following a school collapse that killed nearly 100 people.

Blessings

Live From Haiti (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008

Today, Thanksgiving Day, 29-year-old Heureuse, a mother of two young children will be on a plane from Port-au-Prince to the United States, where she will have heart surgery at Cleveland Clinic. As Heureuse has been sick for a couple of years, this is indeed something to be grateful for. We give thanks for her doctors, nurses, host family, helpers in Haiti, medical technology, and most of all for the...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Crossed The Tiber (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008

I started my day thinking of the many things we have to be thankful for and opened my e-mail to receive a Thanksgiving message from Fr. Andrew in Port-Au-Prince. Despite the past 6 months of horrendous hurricanes and worsening food shortages that have afflicted the Haitians, this is his message: WISHING YOU ALL HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY … THANKING YOU… I TRULY BELIEVE WE ALL HAVE SO MANY REASONS TO BE...

World news: US lawmaker calls for action against Haiti hunger

euronews24 (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A prominent U.S. congresswoman called on Wednesday for a better-funded, systemic approach to fighting hunger in Haiti following an Associated Press report that child malnutrition is worsening. Cal

Poor oversight endangers Haiti students

MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008

The rumor shot like electricity through the Haitian capital: Another school was falling. Desperate parents and would-be rescuers ran through alleys, leaped over walls and wrestled with police to reach the scene.

• Poor oversight means many Haiti schools are unsafe - Miami Herald
• Poor oversight means many Haiti schools are unsafe - Boston Globe
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World news: Poor oversight means many Haiti schools are unsafe

euronews24 (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The rumor shot like electricity through the Haitian capital: Another school was falling. Desperate parents and would-be rescuers ran through alleys, leaped over walls and wrestled with police to reach the scene.

Haitian teen fatally shoots classmate

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A Haitian teen has shot and killed a classmate in a rare outbreak of school violence in the troubled country.

THE ISSUE: AIDS

VIBE Magazine Online (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008

THE ISSUE: AIDS Ta-Nehisi Coates on how abstinence-only education is exacerbating the AIDS epidemic. From our December 2008 issue.

There’s No Such Thing As a “Free Lunch”

cold fury (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008

AND SOMETIMES, WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING, there’s no such thing as “lunch”, period. Gas up your Prius, starve a peasant by Mark Steyn (originally run April 27, 2008): … [I]t has become the habit of progressive opinion to appropriate the language of war for everything but actual war. … In Haiti, Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis was removed [...]

Children succumbing to malnutrition in Haiti

Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti The 5-year-old teetered on broomstick legs he weighed less than 20 pounds, even after days of drinking enriched milk. Nearby, a 4-year-old girl hung from a strap attached to a scale, her wide eyes lifeless, her emaciated arms dangling weakly.

Malnutrition Killing Children In Haiti

Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The 5-year-old teetered on broomstick legs - he weighed less than 20 pounds even after days of drinking enriched milk. Nearby, a 4-year-old girl hung from a strap attached to a scale, her wide eyes lifeless, her emaciated arms dangling weakly.