1. CBS Evening News: Relief Efforts "Certainly Not Good Enough"
(Matching tags: rainy season, shelter, sanitation)

CBS Evening News with Katie Couric continues their Haiti coverage by looking at conditions in the IDP camps. Couric speaks with Dr. Louis Ivers of Partners in Health, who argues that sanitation, shelter, ...

2. More People at Risk Due to Red Tape, Under-funding of Emergency Relief
(Matching tags: partners in health, rainy season, aid pledge, cholera)

The rainy season is returning to Haiti, and so is an expected increase in cholera infections. There have been as many deaths – 13 –  in the last eight reported days as there were in all of January ...

3. MINUSTAH Brought Cholera Into Haiti; Sought to Keep Aristide Out
(Matching tags: rainy season, aristide, minustah, disease, wikileaks)

Revelations about MINUSTAH are in the news again. First, a new study published in a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal affirms that a MINUSTAH camp was the origin of the cholera ...

4. Heavy Rains Test Haiti’s Preparedness for Hurricane Season
(Matching tags: rainy season, usaid, un, shelter, cholera)

Heavy rains dumped up to six inches of rain across Port-au-Prince and throughout much of Haiti Monday night. Continued rain is predicted through Thursday. The storms left 23 dead, injured many and left ...

5. As Cholera Cases Increase, Statement from 44 Experts Outlines a Possible Way Forward
(Matching tags: rainy season, un, ngos, cholera)

It is now officially hurricane season. Rains have picked up over the previous weeks and this is already causing a surge in the number of new cholera cases. The most recent data from the MSPP (Ministere ...

6. Members of Congress Want Answers on Lack of Results from U.S. Assistance Effort
(Matching tags: aid distribution, rainy season, usaid, un, shelter, sanitation, disease)

An editorial in the New York Times today describes the findings of a UN report that shows the cholera outbreak “may have originated” at a MINUSTAH camp, and says “The fact that the disease is still spreading ...

7. UN Panel Links Cholera to MINUSTAH Base; MINUSTAH Continues to Shift Blame
(Matching tags: rainy season, minustah, sanitation, cholera)

Yesterday, the UN “independent panel” released their long awaited report (PDF) on the origin of cholera in Haiti. Although the ultimate conclusion of the panel was that “the Haiti cholera outbreak was ...

8. Will the International Community Stand Idly By While Over 11,000 Haitians Die from Cholera?
(Matching tags: aid distribution, rainy season, shelter, sanitation, disease, ngos)

... is already growing quickly with the onset of the rainy season: The country-wide fatality rate is 1.7 percent, but rural Sud Est department stands at a disastrous 7.9 and Grande Anse is not far behind ...

9. OCHA Bulletin Highlights Massive Shortcomings in Relief Efforts
(Matching tags: rainy season, un, shelter, ngos, us)

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) latest “Humanitarian Bulletin” provides some insight into just how much the relief efforts have struggled to provide results over the ...

10. Failure to Provide Basic Services Behind Decrease in IDP Population
(Matching tags: rainy season, shelter, iom, red cross)

... over abandoned housing in damaged shantytowns, set up tents on rubble-strewn family property, or gone to live with relatives. Meanwhile, cholera is set to make a return with the coming rainy season, and ...