Needs in Haiti

I got this off Medical Teams International's website. A bit of interesting info about Haiti.

Needs in Haiti
Haiti is a chronically unstable country in economic decline, ranked by the United Nations as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Haitian families are poorer now than they were 40 years ago, though food and drug prices are steadily increasing. The United Nations Development Program estimates that nearly 80 percent of Haitians live on less than $2 a day. Additionally, Haiti suffers the highest HIV and AIDS prevalence in the Americas at 5.6 percent. The average life expectancy in Haiti is just 52 years. The land is severely degraded and deforested, and civil conflicts have caused persistent political instability for decades.

Medical Teams International in Haiti
Medical Teams International first sent volunteers to Haiti in 1994 to assist the victims of a civil conflict. During 2004-05, we deployed six disaster response teams to provide health care services for those wounded in Hurricane Jeanne. In 2006, Medical Teams International funded a safer home-birth program through Catholic Relief Services and sent one midwifery team to train traditional birth attendants on effective ways to oversee delivery. In 2007, we deployed three primary care teams to work at Haiti Foundation of Hope's health clinic in Terre Blanche.

Plans for 2007-08
Medical Teams International plans to deploy four volunteer medical teams to work in collaboration with Haiti Foundation of Hope (HFH). We will also work with HFH to lay the groundwork for a community health and development program in Terre Blanche.

Partner information
Haiti Foundation of Hope (HFH) is an international nongovernmental organization that focuses on health care services in Terre Blanche, Haiti. The founders or HFH have lived and worked in Haiti for more than a decade and opened a permanent health clinic in February 2007 that will serve approximately 10,000 people a year. Staff at the clinic will help develop the community health program in Terre Blanche