Haiti After the Earthquake
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background
earthquake account
UNICEF and
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Clinton’s apology
Clinton’s testimony to
Senate Foreign Relations Committee/Farmer
discussion following 2010 presentation
Haitian recovery
NGOs and public sector (2003)
U.S. manipulation of development assistance (2003)
settlements following earthquake
cholera concerns and
description
Didi Farmer’s visits to
disease risk and
Martine’s story
needs
OCHA
at one-year anniversary
organizations involved
outside Port-au-Prince
Parc Jean-Marie Vincent
Partners In Health and
plans and
pregnancies/deliveries
“property rights” and
rains and
sanitation and
sexual violence and
statistics on
tuberculosis and
UN “shelter cluster” plan
Virginie’s story
water and
Shannon, Richard
shelter following earthquake
hurricane shelters
at one-year anniversary
possibilities
resettlement proposals
t-shelters in Léogâne
See also settlements following earthquake
60 Minutes
slavery
ending
Haiti and
Spanish beginnings
Smith, Stephen
social medicine
solar energy
fish farm and
installations
Soros, George
foundation in Haiti
tuberculosis programs and
Sosin, Anne
Stancil, Jeffrey
storytelling in Haiti
Strauss, Anke
structural violence
suffering
about
bearing witness and
sugar mill, Léogâne
sugar production
Africa
biofuels and
Dominican Republic and Haitians
history
Léogâne mill
Surena, Claude
Swords of Sorrow plans
Taíno people
tap taps
Terry, Fiona
Thimothe, Gabriel
Thompson, Marlaine
earthquake aftermath and
General Hospital reconstruction and
one-year anniversary
Time magazine
“Towards a New Future in Haiti,”. See also Voices of the Voiceless
Travesty in Haiti (Schwartz)
tripartite meeting (Haiti, Cuba, Brazil)
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
tuberculosis
drug-resistant tuberculosis
General Hospital ward
Natacha’s story
Partners In Health work
policy and
risk
Roseleine’s story
Russia and
See also Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Tuttle, Leslie
typhoid
Ulysse, Patrick
UN
emergency session day after earthquake
General Assembly on AIDS
See also donors’ conference, New York; specific individuals
UN in Haiti
cholera epidemic and
focus of
headquarters/staff and earthquake
logistics base following earthquake
“shelter cluster,”
See also MINUSTAH (UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti)
UN in Haiti/Farmer and team
appointment
appointment reasons
basic services for Haitians and
Bill Clinton and
Boucan Carré bridge
building and
development aid tracking
disaster risk reduction team
eulogy for Josué Augustin
first trip
Haiti team
Harvard Medical School and
implementation of aid
“international community” and
listening to complaints
meeting in Canada and
new approach and
NGOs registry/tracking
press coverage
UN emergency session day after earthquake
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
UN Office of the Special Envoy, Haiti
Bill Clinton and
future and
Voices of the Voiceless and
See also UN in Haiti/Farmer and team
UNICEF
Unilever
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
United States Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART)
USNS Comfort
arrival
Cange patient reunions
description
Farmer’s tour of
transferring patients to
USS Carl Vinson
Uvin, Peter
Van Le, Phuoc
Verret, Gabriel
Viaud, Loune
about
Cuban-trained Haitian doctors and
earthquake aftermath and
Global Fund meeting
Haiti and
hurricanes and
one-year anniversary and
Saint-Jean Bosco church fire and
settlements after earthquake and
Vienna International AIDS Conference
Vietnam War
Vincent, Father Jean-Marie
Voices of the Voiceless
about
donors’ conference, New York and
focus groups
Montas-Dominique and
name change
partner organizations
representation and
Voices of the Voiceless priorities
communities and
decentralization
education
equality and
Haiti’s future
Haiti’s sovereignty
independence and
investing in people
participation
reconstruction
volcano Nyiragongo eruption (1977)
Voltaire, Leslie
background
earthquake and
family
on Haiti
Wall Street Journal
Walton, David
background
Cange graduation celebration and
cholera outbreak and
earthquake aftermath and
Haiti and
Mirebalais hospital and
water, Haiti
from aid groups and
water insecurity
waterborne diseases and
See also cholera epidemic (2010–2011)
Watson, Jenni
Weber, Max
Weigel, Jon
Weisenfeld, Paul
White, Tom
death of
funeral/eulogy
Lois (wife)
Partners In Health and
Peter (son)
Wilberforce, William
Wilentz, Amy
women’s issues/status and Rwandan recovery
women’s issues/status in Haiti
awards for entrepreneurs
cash transfers to
empowerment and
Fonkoze microfinance group
girls’ education
Ministry of Women’s Affairs
tent camps and sexual violence
World Bank
World Food Program
World Health Organization
Wortenson, Randy
yellow fever
Zanmi Beni
Zanmi Lasante
about
cholera outbreak and
Dominican border raids/rebels and
earthquake aftermath and
founding
future and
Global Fund and
job creation
need for
patients sent to General Hospital and
spontaneous settlements and
Voices of the Voiceless and
See also General Hospital following earthquake; Partners In Health; specific individuals
Zannini, Stefano
Zimbabwe and cholera
Zintl, Paul
Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, is Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and co-founder of Partners In Health. He also serves as UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, under Special Envoy Bill Clinton. Dr. Farmer and his colleagues have pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings. He has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality; his clinical interests include the management of drug-resistant infections. His titles include Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader; Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor; The Uses of Haiti; Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues; and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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a From the title of the 1995 report of Haiti’s National Truth and Justice Commission that investigated the massive human rights violations of 1991–1994.
b IASC Principles on Military-Civilian Relations, January 1995; “Guiding and Operating Principles for the Use of Civil and Military Defense Assets in Support of Humanitarian Operations” (Task Force Report), September 2005. “Civil-Military Relationship in Complex Emergencies—An IASC Reference Paper,” June 2004; Civil-Military Guidelines and References for Complex Emergencies, OCHA, 2008; Guidelines on the Use of Foreign Military and Civil Defense Assets in Disaster Relief —“Oslo Guidelines,” Rev. 1.1, November 2007.
c “Civil-Military Relationship in Complex Emergencies—An IASC Reference Paper,” Office of Humanitarian Coordination, United Nations, 2004, http://ocha-gwapps1.unog.ch/w/lib.nsf/db900SID/DPAL-62GCWL?OpenDocument 2011 ).
d The White House, “United States Government Haiti Earthquake Disaster Response Update 1/21/10,” http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/unitedstates-government-haiti-earthquake-disaster-response-update-12110 (accessed March 28, 2011).
e Nicole Gastineau Campos and Paul Farmer, “Partners: Discernment and Humanitarian Efforts in Settings of Violence.” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 31 (2003): 506–515.
f Report of the Secretary-General on the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), September 18, 2009.
g Decades of inexpensive food imports (coupled with food aid from well-meaning nonprofits) have destroyed local agriculture in Haiti.
h In 2009, the OSE tracked more than US $1.7 billion in pledges of aid, including US $479 million from the April 2009 donors’ conference in Washington, D.C.
i Donors disbursed a total of $189 million was disbursed to the Government of Haiti and an additional $45 million through the Haiti Reconstruction Fund in the 2010 calendar year from the pledges made at the New York donors conference. The International Monetary Fund reports that during the Government of Haiti’s fiscal year 2010 (1 October 2009–30 September 2010) donors committed $250 million in budget support to the Government of Haiti, of which $225 million was disbursed to the government.
j More information on the UN briquette program at http://www.haitispecialenvoy.org/press/celebrating-earth-day (accessed April 22, 2010).
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