
Articles
The origins of the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak
Elba Rahmouni, Jean-Hervé Bradol & Emmanuel Baron
This article is an addition to Issue 25 of Humanitarian Alternatives "Food crisis: what role for humanitarian actors?", published in March 2024.
In 2010, just a few months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti and claimed so many victims, the country was hit by a cholera outbreak. It took the United Nations six years to half-heartedly acknowledge its responsibility for the epidemic. The three authors of this article review the chronology of this episode and draw lessons from it.
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