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  2. Health in Haiti - Wikipedia

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    Mental health problems are often considered to be consequences of a spell, a hex, a curse transmitted by an enemy or failure to please the spirits. Because health professionals are unable to offer a biomedical explanation for most mental illnesses, many Haitians utilize a combination of medical, religious and Vodou sources when available. [11]

  3. Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles ...

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    Haiti’s health system has long been fragile, but it’s now nearing total collapse after gangs launched coordinated attacks on Feb. 29, targeting critical infrastructure in the capital and beyond.

  4. ‘Countdown to death’: Haiti’s health crisis grows as gangs ...

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    Mental stress is a growing problem as Haitians find themselves forced to flee. ... The demise of Haiti’s health sector comes after years and millions of dollars in investment, especially after ...

  5. Haiti’s health sector is on life support as doctors and ...

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    Even before a destructive alliance of armed gangs began burning hospitals, health clinics and pharmacies in Haiti in a month-long siege of Port-au-Prince, the country’s health sector was in ...

  6. Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's ...

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    Now, in a bid to help save Haiti’s youngest generation, the country is undergoing a wider push to dispel a long-standing taboo on seeking therapy and talking about mental health. GETTING HELP At a recent training session in a relatively safe section of Port-au-Prince, parents learned games to put a smile on their children’s faces.

  7. COVID-19 pandemic in Haiti - Wikipedia

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    On 8 May, the United Nations' Economic and Social Council's Ad-Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti expressed concern that "Unless adequately managed, the COVID-19 health emergency and its socio-economic impact could become a humanitarian catastrophe, threatening to unravel some of the hard-won development and security gains achieved in the past decade ...

  8. HIV/AIDS in Haiti - Wikipedia

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    At the start of the epidemic, Haiti's tourism and export industries suffered when Haitians were classified as an HIV risk group. [11] According to Jean Pape, the head of the largest Haitian HIV research center, Haitian products could no longer be sold in the US and tourism, which was the basis of the Haitian economy, declined drastically. [11]

  9. Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's ...

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    Haiti's capital is under the onslaught of powerful gangs that control 80% of of the city. Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's breaking a taboo on mental health services