Haiti

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Haiti's Epidemic of Early-Onset Heart Disease

A new study finds cardiovascular disease rates in Haiti are at least three times greater than among Black Americans

Why I Stay: Haiti's Fight for Health Care

GHESKIO, a long-standing health organization, continues the battle to provide care amid disasters and violence in Haiti

Governance

The Devastating Use of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War

Three new UN reports detail atrocities in Ethiopia, Haiti, and Ukraine

Governance

Global Health Through the Haiti Looking Glass

Another crisis in Haiti sharpens the imperative for new thinking among democracies

Poverty

Paul Farmer Believed Global Health and Health Equity Were About Teamwork

The director of Stanford's Center for Innovation in Global Health remembers her friend's unwavering mission

Poverty

He Shaped the Field of Global Health

Paul Farmer championed ideas about social justice and equity—about what health care should be

Poverty

On the Ground in Haiti Days After Disaster

Haiti-based humanitarian Bruno Maes shares scenes from a shaken Caribbean country 

Poverty

How Haiti's History Has Hindered Its Disaster Readiness

Broken trust, neoliberal interference, and poverty are to blame says a former reporter who survived the 2010 earthquake

Migration

Medical Diplomacy—Lessons From Cuba

COVID-19 is a chance to design more efficient, equitable, and ethical health care responses during a crisis

Governance

The WHO We Need for the Next Pandemic

The World Health Organization should be more independent, collaborate with NGOs, and increase emphasis on human rights