Gang attack on Haitian hospital leads to a call for help
One of Haiti's most vulnerable and impoverished communities is recovering from a gang attack that targeted a hospital serving as a lifeline for many (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Kenya to Send Police to Help Quell Haiti Gangs
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Source: Reuters: Health - November 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Immigrants call on Biden for the unlikely: Work permits like those given to Venezuelans
Many recently arrived Venezuelans celebrated when the Biden administration granted those who were eligible the chance to work in the U.S. Consuelo Martinez said she felt deep sadness. Martinez, originally from Mexico, and her husband have worked in the U.S. for 27 years, without permission and in…#venezuelans #consuelomartinez #mexico #spanish #venezuelan #lafayettesquare #muzaffarchishti #cubans #haitians #nicaraguans (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hundreds leave to join Mexico migrant caravan headed for US
A caravan of at least hundreds of migrants left from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Sunday, heading for the U.S. southern border. The smaller caravan plans to join a larger one that left six days ago and is currently stopped about 25 miles (40 km) north in the town of Huixtla.…#mexican #huixtla #chiapas #cuba #elsalvador #guatemala #haiti #honduras #venezuela #selmaalvarez (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What Will It Take to Get Pregnant Women Vaccinated?
(MedPage Today) -- I'll never forget the day I witnessed my first stillborn birth.
In the 1970s, before starting medical school, I spent 6 weeks at a rural sickbay in Haiti. Despite its meager resources and daily heartbreaks, I quickly gained... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - November 2, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
UN human rights official is alarmed by sprawling gang violence in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The United Nations expert on human rights in Haiti said Tuesday that he is alarmed by the rapid spread of gang violence and the bleak future awaiting children in the embattled country. William O’Neill spoke at the end of a weeklong visit to Haiti, his second one this…#haiti #unitednations #murders #portau #oneill #haitians #garrylochar #haitian #arielhenry #jovenelmoïse (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Choke Migration to US, El Salvador Hits Africans, Indians With $1,130 Fee
In what's seen as an attempt to throttle the stream of migrants who proceed to the US border, the government of El Salvador has started hitting passengers arriving from Africa and India with a steep $1,000 tax. If that is…#elsalvador #africans #indians #africa #salvadoran #nayibbukele #briannichols #elsalvadors #haiti #briananichols (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Carhartt and Friends Write the Brand ’s Next 135 Years of History
Bertony Faustin wears Carhartt work gear to harvest grapes in his Oregon vineyard, but will also wear it out to a more formal event just to get people to ask about it. Born in Brooklyn and raised in a family of Haitian immigrants, Faustin wrapped up school in Florida and North Carolina in 1999…#bertonyfaustin #oregon #brooklyn #haitian #faustin #florida #northcarolina (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Massachusetts governor warns state is running out of room to house migrants
Healey also reiterated her pleas to press the federal government for more aid, including a larger group shelter setting that would ease some of the burden on the shelter system, more equitable distribution of federal dollars among states and expedited work permits for migrants — particularly…#healey #haitians #homelandsecurity #massachusetts #ronmariano #democrats #ushouse #dhs #lscottrice (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Teju Cole Talks About His New Novel, “Tremor”
“Tremor,” his first novel in over a decade, is set in Massachusetts and Lagos, and came from a desire to capture the last moments of a pre-Covid world. A strange sense of the calm before the storm pervades Teju Cole’s new novel, “Tremor,” which is attuned to vibrations great and small. The book is…#massachusetts #lagos #tejucoles #nigerian #boston #iran #haiti #cole #harvard #opencity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Haiti May Have Won Independence, But It Is Not Independent of Chaos and Poverty
Haiti famously won its independence from France during a slave revolt, but being independent has not brought political stability or prosperity. Instead, Haitians struggle to get by in the Western Hemisphere's poorest…#haiti #haitians #westernhemisphere (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Local Journalists Are The Key To Improving The Global News Industry
From rebuilding audience trust to reimagining the way journalists cover the world, Cristi Hegranes is optimistic that the future of journalism is bright. Here, I speak with Hegranes about her new book, Byline and her vision for international journalism. Michael Zakaras: Over the last 17 years,…#cristihegranes #hegranes #byline #michaelzakaras #globalpress #mountnyiragongo #goma #noellanirabihogo #haitian #haitians (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Haitian-American Woman, Dr. Claudine Gay Is New Harvard President
She was inaugurated to lead the university with the largest endowment in the world, an endowment that is more than twice the GDP of her parents ’ homeland of Haiti (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 7, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Mill Etienne, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
Haitian American Woman And Political Scholar Dr. Claudine Gay Is New Harvard President
She was inaugurated to lead the university with the largest endowment in the world, an endowment that is more than twice the GDP of her parents ’ homeland of Haiti (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 7, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Mill Etienne, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
Southern Mexico bus crash kills at least 16 migrants, injures dozens
At least 16 migrants from Venezuela and Haiti died early Friday in a bus crash in southern Mexico, authorities said. Mexico’s National Immigration Institute originally reported 18 dead, but later lowered that figure. Prosecutors in the southern state of Oaxaca later said there had been an…#venezuela #haiti #mexico #oaxaca #tepelmeme #cuban #chiapas #guatemala #institute #mexican (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
