Tag: cholera

  • Nation & World

    Forcing the UN to do right by Haitian cholera victims

    Beatrice Lindstrom, clinical instructor in the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, talks about the complaint the clinic and two human rights organizations filed against the United Nations for its response to introducing cholera to Haiti.

    10 minutes
    Beatrice Lindstrom.
  • Nation & World

    Clues to cholera resistance

    Researchers have long understood that genetics can play a role in susceptibility to cholera, but a team of Harvard scientists is now uncovering evidence of genetic changes that might also help protect some people from contracting the deadly disease.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A plan to stop cholera’s spread

    HMS Professor John Mekalanos, an expert on cholera, suggested Oct. 22 that relief workers and peacekeepers from cholera-endemic countries be treated with antibiotics before serving in cholera-free countries, as a way to avoid a repeat of the post-earthquake cholera epidemic in Haiti, which has killed thousands.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Haitian National Soccer Team vs. Harvard

    The Haitian National Soccer Team will take on the Harvard Crimson on April 22 for the second annual Haiti Leve (Haiti Rises) match at Harvard Stadium.



 Proceeds from this exhibition game will benefit Partners In Health’s work in Haiti.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Progress in Haiti ‘painfully slow’

    A year after a devastating earthquake in Haiti, Harvard faculty members reflect on work done there and the difficult job that remains.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Cholera strain tied to South Asia

    A team of researchers has determined that the strain of cholera erupting in Haiti matches bacterial samples from South Asia and not those from Latin America.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Water solutions

    The pictures — of children with sunken eyes and shriveled skin; oxen being herded across a river where women clean their clothes and fill their pitchers; an African villager sipping water from a shallow puddle — made the point like no words could at the May 11 Center for International Development symposium “The Impact of…

    4 minutes