Port-au-Prince, Haiti – June 2011
Chantale (name changed) was assaulted and raped while walking in her neighborhood, not far from her house. She was attacked in a vacant lot on her way home. Her attackers were never arrested. She is portrayed here with her MSF psychologist.
Sexual Violence in Haiti Sexual violence in Haiti is a true problem. Women are consistently made victims of sexual violence and they have little or no recourse either through their family or the law. Rapes, domestic violence are an accepted fact of life in the country and especially in the slums. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) offers psychological treatment and medical diagnoses to help treat the victims wounds.

Port au Prince – May 2011
The cholera epidemic in Haiti is far from over, with a sharp increase in cases seen in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and outbreaks reported elsewhere in the country.
“Since May 29—in one week—MSF has treated almost 2,000 patients in the capital, and we have also been asked to intervene in other areas in the interior of the country,” said MSF head of mission, Romain Gitenet. “Workload should be shared and coordinated in order to increase cholera treatment capacity in Haiti. Too many public facilities are still inadequate.”

Port-auPrince, Haiti – November 2010
Patients receive treatment for cholera in Sarthe, in the west of Port-au-Prince. The number of cases MSF has seen in the capital jumped from 350 during the first week of November to 2,250 during the second week.

Archaie, Haiti – October 2010
A man infected with cholera being treated at a local hospital in the village of Archaie, Haiti.
On Tuesday, the Haitian government announced that the death toll from the cholera outbreak that began last month had surpassed 1,000. MSF teams saw cases increasing across the country with particular spikes in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and the northern cities of Cap Haitien, Port de Paix, and Gros Morne.
The fundamental paradox remains in place: an easily treatable and preventable disease continues to claim lives.

St. Marc, Haiti – October 27, 2010
Patients suffering from cholera-like symptoms lay on the floor at a hospital run by the Haitian government and Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders.
Haiti, one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere, has been further unsettled by an outbreak of cholera which has so far killed nearly 300 people as of Oct 26. The epidemic has affected the central Artibonite and Central Plateau regions with 3,612 cases so far on record.

Port-au-Prince – April 24, 2010
2 girls carrying water to their tent in the camp of Ancho, Port-au-Prince.
“More than one million people are still living in deplorable conditions, beneath tents or plastic sheeting, without a clear sense of what’s ahead in the coming months,” says Stefano Zannini, MSF’s head of mission in Haiti. “In the meantime, the rains are intensifying, flooding the sites where earthquake victims live several times a week.”

Port-au-Prince, Haiti – March 2, 2010
A tattered shelter sits at a makeshift displaced persons camp outside the Cite Soleil slum. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and live in rickety huts made of plastic sheeting, tents or ruined houses, with one latrine for a few hundred people on average. Shelter, hygiene, water and medical care remain a priority need.

Sarthe, Haiti – March 01, 2010
Frisnel J. (L), 21, and Esvelt P.J., 32, work on balance and strengthening exercises in the Handicap International physical therapy space at the Doctors Without Borders hospital March 1, 2010 in Sarthe, Haiti. The new Doctors Without Borders hospital is under construction and will have beds for more than 300 people once it is finished. Thousands were injured or lost limbs during the 7.0 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 and left 1.2 million homeless in January.

Port-au-Prince – February 2010
The Clerge family in their shack next to their original house. The Clerge family used to live in a house in the Carrefour area of
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. They lived there with nine people: father, Nelvis, 55, mother, Elvire, 45, and their seven children. Nelvis is a construction worker and who built his house with his own hands over the past 25 years.
The earthquake on January 12 destroyed everything and took the life of their daughter Neemi, 8. They now live in a shack next to their house, with their children and neighbors. Elvire was injured in the earthquake and is at the MSF hospital.

Port-au-Prince – January 28, 2010
Patients at Hospital Isaie Jeanty, in Chancerelle. MSF started working in Isaie Jeanty one week after the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince. The MSF team provides orthopedic surgery, maternity services, post-operation care and psychosocial activities.

Chancerelle Hospital, Port-au-Prince – January 28, 2009
Rachel Mathieu, 29, became a mother for the first time when she delivered twins on January 30th. “She was still eight months pregnant and started to lose blood. We came to the hospital and she had a C-section. We are all living in the street because our house collapsed in the earthquake. But now the whole family is happy that the twins arrived safely”, said Pamela, Rachel’s sister, while Rachel slept next to her twins.

Port-au-Prince – January 20, 2010
The team of nephrologists found a working dialysis machine, and has treated 6 patients with dialysis yesterday. More machines have arrived, meaning treatments can be offered to more patients with “crush syndrome”.
Crush syndrome is a condition in which muscle tissue damaged by severe internal injury may release massive quantities of toxins into the bloodstream and lead to kidney failure. MSF flew in four dialysis machines and medicines needed to treat the syndrome. Left untreated, crush syndrome can be fatal.

Martissant, Port-au-Prince – January 17, 2010
Hélène Rémy, 31 years old, nurse in Carrefour, and her husband Jonas François, 30 years old, were burnt during the earthquake due to an explosion on the street. They were brought to the Martissant clinic on Tuesday night, the night of the quake. They were treated for their injuries as soon as they arrived. Hélène has both her legs, her back, both arms and her face burnt while her husband has his back, face and arms burnt. They are side by side under nets in a tent outside.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 15 2010
Calixte Oudens, a blind street singer, almost died with his family when their house collapsed. He already composed a song about the disaster. “Cathedrale Notre-Dame”, in the background was totally destroyed during the earthquake.

Cité Soleil, Haiti – June 2007
In one of the city’s most violent areas, Cité Soleil, MSF operates the 75-bed Choscal Hospital and primary healthcare centre in Chapi. More than 3,000 consultations are carried out monthly, including maternal and child healthcare and surgical consultations.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti – April 2009
Florvil Emanise, 19, has come to MSF’s mobile clinic in a slum area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. MSF operates several mobile clinics throughout Port-au-Prince which provide pre- and ante-natal care.

A woman with her child in the remains of their house in Gonaives, Haiti. After the hurricanes Hanna and Ike hit Haiti, more than one million people were left homeless and in need of everything.