By Maya Brownstein | Community Giving
Patients are treated at the Cholera Treatment Center in Mirebalais, Haiti, on Nov. 8, 2012.
Thank you for your support of Partners In Health and our efforts to help Haiti continue rebuilding after the 2010 earthquake.
In the months after the earthquake, United Nations peacekeepers contaminated a crucial waterway with cholera, introducing to Haiti the disease that can trigger vomiting and diarrhea so severe it can kill in mere hours. Since 2010, 10,000 Haitians have died of cholera, and this year alone there have been 26,000 reported cases.
The U.N. recently accepted responsibility for bringing cholera to Haiti, and in response Partners In Health sent a petition to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations urging the organization to support cholera treatment and prevention efforts. You can read the petition here.
Meanwhile, Partners In Health continues to fight cholera, bringing urgent care to Haiti's destitute countryside, vaccinating and educating communties, and building clean water infrastructure to prevent future spread of the disease.
More information about Haiti's cholera outbreak, and PIH's response, is available here.
Thank you for your generous support that makes our work possible.
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