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. Lack of Sanitation Could Lead to Outbreak of Diseases
(Matching tags: sanitation, latrines, ocha, disease)

Patricia Mazzei reports for the Miami Herald on the lack of sanitation and the possibility of diseases spreading throughout the make-shift camps: "But now, more than five weeks after the quake, the dangers ...

3. As Cholera Continues to Spread, Some Turn to Composting to Help Fight it
(Matching tags: sanitation, cholera, dinepa, soil, composting)

... the clean water and sanitation that would eradicate the epidemic. A new, 10-year, cholera eradication plan was announced less than a week later. The ambitious plan, if carried out, would provide lifesaving ...

4. Cholera Eradication Plan Announced, But Funding Still in Question
(Matching tags: minustah, sanitation, haitian government, aid pledge, cholera, public sector, accountability)

... plan today after months of delays. The plan calls for an investment of $2.2 billion in clean water and sanitation infrastructure, with some $485.9 million needed for the next two years. Currently 31 percent ...

5. From Camp to Kanaan to One of Haiti’s First Sewage Treatment Plants
(Matching tags: shelter, reconstruction, sanitation, displacement, idps, cholera, public sector, dinepa)

Port-au-Prince - It “shook the house, like this” he says, violently rocking back and forth, acting it out. He yelled to his wife to get out, grabbed the children and went to the street. “Ten minutes later ...

6. Three Years Later: Three Answers to Haiti's Predicament
(Matching tags: usaid, minustah, sanitation, ngos, haitian government, aid, accountability, clinton)

...  The only meaningful success that comes to mind is the construction and opening of a government-run sewage treatment plant outside Port-au-Prince. There is an urgent need for improved sanitation in Haiti. ...

7. Pressure Builds on UN to Take Responsibility as Cholera Still Far From “Under Control”
(Matching tags: doctors without borders, minustah, sanitation, cholera, health, accountability)

Port-au-Prince – The origin of Haiti’s deadly cholera outbreak is not much in doubt, at least not to anybody outside the U.N. A host of scientific studies have all pointed to UN troops whose waste made ...

8. Red Cross Progress Report Raises Some Questions
(Matching tags: shelter, sanitation, red cross, idps, health, housing)

...  At this point, virtually all of the money donated to the American Red Cross has been spent, committed or allocated for planned housing and neighborhood recovery, health, clean water and sanitation and ...

9. Two Years After the Outbreak of Cholera in Haiti, Access to Clean Water and Sanitation is Desperately Needed
(Matching tags: minustah, sanitation, cholera)

... faith-based organizations, policy institutes, and humanitarian organizations renew their call for the United Nations and U.S. government to help Haiti install the clean water and sanitation infrastructure ...

10. Cholera: Two Years On, and the UN Has Yet to Take Responsibility
(Matching tags: minustah, sanitation, msf, cholera)

... access to clean water and sanitation. “This year, MSF had to keep most of our CTCs open throughout the year because cholera  is far from being controlled. The measures to prevent and treat cholera are ...