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Haiti. Families gather at a site for displaced persons in Tabarre
News note
11 September 2023
Escalating violence threatens thousands of children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Nearly 200,000 people, half of whom are children, are now displaced across the country, with 130,000 in the capital alone.
Un adulte tient la main d'un enfant
Press release
07 August 2023
Kidnappings of children and women spiking at alarming rates in Haiti
Close to 300 cases have been reported so far this year, nearly the total number registered for all of 2022, and three times more than 2021
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell greets a child during a visit to the GHESKIO centre, a UNICEF partner that provides health and nutrition services, including cholera treatment, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Press release
20 June 2023
WFP and UNICEF Executive Directors visit Haiti to galvanize international support amid record humanitarian needs
Unprecedented hunger and malnutrition threaten lives across the country
Un niño haitiano mira a la cámara
News note
15 June 2023
Nearly 3 million children need support in Haiti – highest number on record
Children in extreme jeopardy amid shocking levels of violence, malnutrition and poverty.
A multi-purpose community health worker measures the upper arm circumference of a daughter during a workshop before deployment to the field.
Press release
11 May 2023
Armed violence plunging children into severe acute malnutrition in Haiti
Children bearing the brunt of the crisis are the most critically affected.
Haiti. Children sit at their desks at a school where UNICEF is distributing school kits.
Article
05 May 2023
5 ways UNICEF is supporting Haiti’s children
Violence, poverty, school closures and a resurgence of cholera and malnutrition are pushing children and their families to the breaking point
Haitian girls students smiling
News note
09 February 2023
Haiti: Armed violence against schools increases nine-fold in one year - UNICEF
Children lost an average of one and a half school days per week in January.
On 21 July 2022, Maila Rene, 4, receives a dose of Vitamin A at Hopital Immaculée Conception in Les Cayes, Departement du Sud, Haiti.
News note
19 December 2022
With UNICEF support, Haiti kickstarts campaign to immunize about 1.7 million people against cholera
41 per cent of confirmed cholera cases are reported among children under 14.
On 19 July 2022 in the village of Troirac near the town of Camp Perrin in Haiti, mother Camsus Joseph holds her 9-month-old daughter, Anne Djounaïka.
Photo essay
05 December 2022
Reaching children in Haiti with vital health services
Amid instability and uncertainty, health workers are working tirelessly
On November 21, 2022, Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Director of the Office of Emergency Programmes, visited the UNICEF-supported GHESKIO health center located in Centre Ville, Port-au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti.
News note
22 November 2022
Haiti: children account for 2 in 5 cholera cases -UNICEF
Cholera is most prevalent in areas with a high burden of severe acute malnutrition.