Haiti Cholera

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  Ban Ki-moon Sorry For UN Role In Deadly Haiti Cholera Outbreak

  Outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apologised to the people of Haiti on Thursday for the world body's role in a deadly cholera outbreak that has killed more than 9,300 people and was blamed on Nepali UN peacekeepers.

• Five Years After Quake, Cholera Epidemic Haunts Haiti

  Five years after an earthquake demolished its capital, Haiti's efforts to get back on its feet are still hampered by an epidemic blamed on the UN troops there to help.

• Haiti Cholera Outbreak Kills 132 in 2014

  Haiti's cholera epidemic has killed 132 people and may have infected nearly 15,000 others so far this year, a UN agency report said on Wednesday.

• UN Chief in Haiti Launches Sanitation Program

  United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited rural Haiti on Monday to help launch a program to improve sanitation and fight the spread of cholera, a disease many Haitians blame UN peacekeepers for introducing to the impoverished Caribbean country.

• UN Chief Makes 'Pilgrimage' to Haiti to Address Cholera Crisis

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Haiti on Monday for what he called a "necessary pilgrimage" to promote efforts to alleviate a cholera epidemic that has killed thousands and has been linked to the U.N.'s own peacekeepers.

• Cholera surges in Haiti's Central Plateau

  An old man with sunken cheeks is so dehydrated he must be carried down the dirt lane to a clinic where the air is thick with the odor of bleach. Minutes later, a worried father enters, carrying a two-year-old girl in a frilly white dress, her eyes sunken and unfocused.Such scenes are once again common in Haiti where a deadly cholera epidemic that s...

• UN appeals for $164 million to combat Haiti cholera

  The United Nations is asking for $164 million to fight the cholera outbreak in Haiti, which has now claimed 724 lives.A spokeswoman for the UN humanitarian office says unless the funds are provided "all our efforts can be outrun by the epidemic."Elisabeth Byrs told reporters in Geneva that UN and non-governmental organizations would use the money t...

• Haiti Cholera epidemic averted?

  As doctors in Haiti wait to see if a major cholera epidemic has been averted, aid workers in Port-au-Prince were working on Friday to prepare for the eventuality that it hasn't.As of Friday morning, more than 4,700 people had been hospitalised and at least 330 people had died, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs....

• Haiti toll rises above 250, but new cases taper off

  Haiti cholera deaths rose above 250 but the number of new infections and fatalities began to taper off, offering hope the epidemic might have been contained.     The new toll of 253 dead and 3,115 infections, provided by the director general of Haiti's health department Gabriel Thimote, represented an increase of only 33 fatalit...

• Cholera outbreak creeps closer to Haiti's capital

  A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts on Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.Health officials said at least 208 people had died and 2,674 others were infected in an outbreak mostly centered in the Artibonite re...

• Cholera outbreak leaves 142 dead in rural Haiti

  At least 142 people have died in a cholera outbreak, and aid groups are rushing in medicine and other supplies on Friday to combat Haiti's deadliest health problem since its devastating earthquake.The outbreak in the rural Artibonite region, which hosts thousands of quake refugees, appeared to confirm relief groups' fears about sanitation for homel...