Partners In Health

Among developing nations, cancer is an increasingly prevalent cause of death. It’s largely overtaken other diseases as the leading cause of death in those countries — mostly because there’s little or no access to affordable prevention and treatment.

Doctor says Haiti’s vulnerability to storms are really socially created, and the recent disasters there are “un-natural disasters.”

Haitian women know little about breast cancer and those who contract it rarely receive treatment. An American charity and its local partners are trying to change that. But it’s not easy providing cancer care in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.

Doctors think they may have identified the first Haitian who caught cholera and triggered the epidemic that swept the island after an earthquake struck there two years ago this week.

Last month, the international community came together and pledged over $9 billion to the earthquake crippled country of Haiti. Now the question is, how should the money be used?