Haiti’s Humanitarian Emergency: Where It’s Worst, What Aid Groups Are Doing, and Why Funding Matters

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Haiti’s Humanitarian Emergency: Where It’s Worst, What Aid Groups Are Doing, and Why Funding Matters

By: Staff Writer | Editorial credit: naTsumi / Shutterstock.com Port-au-Prince, Haiti:. Haiti’s overlapping security and humanitarian crises have intensified into a nationwide emergency marked by mass displacement, hunger, disease risks, and the collapse of public services. UN and NGO assessments indicate well over 1 million people are internally displaced, with the figure rising as armed […]

5 Years of COVID-19 Underscore Value of Coordinated Efforts to Manage Disease – While CDC, NIH and WHO Face Threats to their Ability to Respond to a Crisis

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5 Years of COVID-19 Underscore Value of Coordinated Efforts to Manage Disease – While CDC, NIH and WHO Face Threats to their Ability to Respond to a Crisis

By Katherine A. Foss, THE CONVERSATION | Editorial credit: Tada Images / shutterstock.com  Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a global pandemic. The novel coronavirus, dubbed SARS-CoV-2, began as a “cluster of severe pneumonia cases of unknown cause” reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It had […]