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19-year old Merise Merita is a single mother and lives in a poor
neighborhood in Port-Salut, Haiti. She is one of thousands of women who
benefited from a project that has offered free obstetric care to poor
women since 2008.
Marise says, "This is my first child. I attended two prenatal consultations at the hospital. I did not have problems during pregnancy but I did have complications during the birth and am happy I delivered at the hospital. At home the baby could have died."
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Washing hands with soap and water has been and remains one of the most cost-effective measures against the transmission of diseases that are available in public health. The promotion of proper hand washing with soap and water can save many lives. Each year about 3.5 million children, die before their fifth birthday
due to preventable diseases, mainly diarrhea and acute respiratory
diseases...
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Photo: Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1994. For this little girl, quenching her thirst is more important than knowing that the water she drinks is safe for her health. This beautiful image is part of a photography exhibition "Water, Health and Hope in Hispaniola", which depicts the daily hardships that Haitians face in their efforts to obtain water and the lack of access to clean water and sanitation.
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Photo: Haiti, 1994. Cholera can kill within a day and advances
quickly on a continental scale. The cholera epidemic in the 1990s spread
to over 20 countries in Latin America, with the last case reported in
2002. In Haiti shortly after the earthquake, cholera re-emerged
sickening more than half a million people between October 2010 and May
2012, and killing more than 7,000...
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Photo: Iguazu Falls, Argentina-Brazil, 2000. The mysterious and the mundane, the sacred and the profane are all part of the environment that makes up the Americas. Rural villagers share with urban dwellers the need to protect water, land, air, and health. June 5th marks World Environment Day and, this year in particular, it paves the road to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, commonly referred to as Rio +20, which will be held June 20-22...