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Clinton, Bush Plan Trip to Haiti; They'll Hear Gripes
Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are visiting Haiti March 21, reminding the country of its tumultuous recent past just as frustration over an uneven earthquake-relief effort is bringing politics back to the surface.
E-mails: U.S. Botched Haiti Humanitarian Flights to Florida
As hundreds of injured survivors of the Haiti earthquake overwhelmed Florida hospitals in January, state officials pleaded with the federal government for basic information about arriving patients but got little assistance.
Arizona RNs Returns From Helping Quake-ravaged Haiti
A Haitian-born neonatal nurse describes the devastation she saw in her homeland.
Experts: U.S. Quake a Matter of Time
Recent earthquakes hint at dangers for U.S. with potential for enormous potential loss of life.
Haiti Sends Refugees Back to Ravaged Neighborhoods
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — With forecasters warning of Haiti's first big rainstorm since the earthquake, relief officials have changed tack on dealing with the homeless.
Haiti Relief Aims to Solve Disaster's Lingering Impact
SOURCE MATELAS, Haiti - Six weeks after the earthquake leveled much of Port-au-Prince and killed more than 230,000 people, 25 doctors and nurses saw the lingering impact of the disaster.
Video: USNS Comfort Continues to Help in Haiti
Healthcare professionals attend to post-earthquake trauma in Haitian victims.
Florida Facilities Shoulder Heavy Load from Haiti
Florida schools, hospitals and charity groups have been helping care for more Haitians than all other states after Haiti's devastating earthquake, and they worry about how the influx will affect them.
Ohio Nurses Headed to Haiti as Relief Efforts Continue
Five weeks after the earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince and killed an estimated 230,000 people, old wounds and broken bones are still bandaged with T-shirts and malnutrition and infections are ever-growing problems.
Agencies Race to Help 1.2 Million Homeless in Haiti
CARREFOUR, Haiti - As many as 700 camps are spread throughout Port-au-Prince, its suburbs and outlying rural villages, a swath of dire homelessness the likes of which have not been seen in the Western Hemisphere.
Tallahassee Nurse Accepts Call to Serve in Haiti
Nurse on her 35th medical mission with Doctors Without Borders says "it's the best job on the planet."
Pipeline of Help to Haiti Comes From N.Y. Community
Haitian aid groups in Rockland County, N.Y., have been in action since 2004 when Hurricane Jeanne killed 2,500 people in the Haitian city of Gonaives. Nurses are among those responding to the current crisis.
U.S. Draws Down Haiti Relief Force
The U.S. military is scaling back a month after its troops arrived in haste to aid victims of Haiti's catastrophic quake.
Video: Florida Nurse Helps Victims in Haiti
A Florida nurse discusses care given to earthquake victims transferred to the hospital ship the USNS Comfort off the coast of Haiti.
Florida Doctors, Nurses Among First to Reach Haiti
Surgical team spent four days caring for survivors in makeshift operating room.
Haiti's Hardest Recovery Is Mental
As many as one in five Haiti earthquake victims have suffered trauma so great that they won’t be able to cope without professional help, doctors say.
Doctors in Haiti Are Worried: Infectious Diseases Rampant
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Doctors on the ground say infectious diseases are quickly becoming the most pressing medical problem, where thousands pile into grimy, congested camps with little clean water or sanitation.
AP: U.N. Slams Haitian Hospitals for Charging Patients
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients.
Experts: Haiti Chaos May Lead to Rise in Drug Trafficking
MEXICO CITY - Experts fear a fallout from the Haiti earthquake may be a surge of drug trafficking through the Caribbean country as the government struggles to maintain control, impoverished Haitians seek ways to survive and thousands of escaped convicts return to crime.
Relief Gaps Spread as Haitians Flee Capital
MIREBALAIS, Haiti - Relief efforts are slow to reach rural areas.
New Amputees Worry About Life Ahead
Between 2,000 and 3,000 people have had crushed limbs amputated since a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12.
More Delaware Medical Teams to Help in Haiti
Two more teams of Delaware doctors, nurses and other health care workerstravel to Haiti to aid victims of last month's earthquake.
U.N. warns of violence near food-aid locations
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United Nations said Tuesday that complaints and violence involving the distribution of food did not signal major problems with the relief effort.
Ethical debate ends: Doctors do surgery on Haitian baby
Doctors aboard the floating hospital ship USNS Comfort have performed a lifesaving operation on an 11-month-old Haitian boy with severe hydrocephalus to relieve pressure inside the baby's skull, Navy Cmdr. Dennis Rivet, a neurosurgeon, said Tuesday.
Jacmel's Angel
VIDEO: Watch a Delaware medical team at work in Jacmel, Haiti.
U.S. doctors say Haiti stands out from other disasters
Detroit emergency physician Frank McGeorge says nothing could have prepared him for what he saw in Haiti. Television doesn't do it any justice, says McGeorge...
Aid operations help Haiti's commerce make comeback
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — For three days after he learned that his pregnant wife had been crushed to death in the earthquake, Jude Laurent meandered about in a daze of grief...
Sanitation crisis raises fears in Haiti
Shortages of food, clean water, adequate shelter and latrines are creating a potential spawning ground for epidemics in a country with an estimated 1 million people made homeless by the Jan. 12 quake.
Florida governor: Flights continue out of Haiti
Hundreds of people have been flown from Haiti to Florida, even after the U.S. military halted evacuation flights for critically injured patients, the state's governor said Sunday.
Haiti medics plan for next team's mission of mercy
Veterans' advice: Always have a 'Plan B,' take an air mattress
Brevard medical team back from Haiti
The team performed dozens of surgeries, treated numerous injuries and even helped deliver a baby during the trip to the earthquake-ravaged capital city.
In Haiti, death and anger mount
Not much has changed in the two weeks since the Jan. 12 earthquake except that the once-deserted airport is now a giant holding facility for logjammed food, water, blankets and medical supplies.
ID'ing U.S. dead in Haiti could take days
As crews pick carefully through the rubble at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, family members of Americans still missing there said it could be days before any bodies found are identified.
IRS allows Hait deductions from 2009 taxes
This includes contributions made by text message, check, credit card or debit card, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
Helping Haiti, one loving bake sale at a time
Americans are organizing bake sales, garage sales and auctions and donating haircuts and yoga classes to raise money for Haiti.
AP: Haiti govt gets 1 penny of U.S. quake aid
Less than a penny of each dollar the U.S. is spending on earthquake relief in Haiti is going in the form of cash to the Haitian government, according to an Associated Press review of relief efforts.
Delaware's Haiti team exhausted, but fulfilled
Delaware's 21-member medical relief team had remarkable success in its whirlwind week
Food for hungry still not reaching neediest
Whether locked up in warehouses or stolen by thugs from people's hands, food from the world's aid agencies still isn't getting to enough hungry Haitians
Haiti's 'floating hospital': Tough questions on USNS Comfort
More than six days into the Comfort's mission here, more than 450 patients are on board
Thousands of children adrift after Haiti quake
Spokeswoman says 1 million unaccompanied or orphaned children or children who lost 1 parent
Urgent need for tent cities for Haiti victims
The collapse of much of Haiti's capital has a large part of the nation struggling just to find a place to sleep.
Delaware pushes back; medical team will stay in Haiti
The volunteer medical team from Delaware won a showdown with the French in disaster relief politics Monday.
Hospice grief counselors offer services to those affected by Haiti tragedy
Hope Hospice grief professionals have been offering free support services for those impacted by the tragedy in Haiti.
Melbourne (Fla.) nurse feels pull from Haiti
Emergency room nurse Glen Womble returned from the devastated city of Port-au-Prince last week long enough to organize a second trip back with more Brevard County medical personnel and medication.
Polls finds U.S. Haiti assistance is sufficient
More than six out of 10 Americans believe U.S. troops and relief workers should remain in Haiti until life is more or less back to normal, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll released Monday found.
Abandon efforts, Delaware team is told
French medical group taking over control of town's hospital
In their hands, healing begins
After agonizing delays, Delaware doctors start surgeries -- working into the night
In Haiti, children are the most vulnerable
In the devastation left after the Haiti earthquake, the heaviest blow is falling on the weakest: children.

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