2010 Haiti earthquake Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====2013==== According to the [[International Monetary Fund]], more than half of the {{convert|10000000|m3|yd3}} of debris have been removed, and 20% of it has been recycled.<ref name=autogenerated5>{{cite news | url=https://huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/12/haiti-earthquake-recovery-2013_n_2451267.html | work=HuffPost | first=Zoe | last=Mintz | title=LOOK: Haiti 3 Years Later: Where Has The Money Gone? | date=12 January 2013 | access-date=11 December 2019 | archive-date=11 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011164158/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/12/haiti-earthquake-recovery-2013_n_2451267.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The [[2010 Haiti cholera outbreak|2010 cholera outbreak]] has continued. According to [[U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] it is considered the worst epidemic of cholera since the 1994 outbreak in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] (called [[Zaire]] at that time).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.voanews.com/content/haitis-cholera-epidemic-not-waningvaccination-to-begin-134083213/164624.html|title=Haiti's Cholera Epidemic Not Waning; Vaccination to Begin|date=16 November 2011 |access-date=29 September 2013|archive-date=2 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002111451/http://www.voanews.com/content/haitis-cholera-epidemic-not-waningvaccination-to-begin-134083213/164624.html|url-status=live}}</ref> By August 2013, it had killed over 8,231 Haitians and hospitalized hundreds of thousands more.{{clarify|as usual, Haitian government sources are cited which tend to be notoriously inflated. The figures report a gross casualty rate of "maybe" 4%, not much worse than any other 3rd world country. That means that the claim of "worse" health care is incorrect or needs better justification|date=September 2013}} More than 6% of Haitians have had the disease. Care of cholera patients remains inadequate with much now done in tent facilities with rows of cots for patient treatment.<ref name=autogenerated5 /><ref name="Huffington Post">{{cite news| url=https://huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121128/cb-haiti-cholera-plan/?ir=homepage| work=HuffPost| title=Haiti, DR to eliminate cholera with $2.2 billion| access-date=11 December 2019| archive-date=4 March 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304215435/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121128/cb-haiti-cholera-plan/?ir=homepage| url-status=live}}</ref> The United Nations peacekeeping force, widely believed responsible for the cholera outbreak,<ref name=sontag>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/americas/haitis-cholera-outraced-the-experts-and-tainted-the-un.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |title=In Haiti, Global Failures on a Cholera Epidemic |last1=Sontag |first1=Deborah |date=31 March 2012 |work=The New York Times |access-date=25 July 2013 |archive-date=30 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530025124/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/americas/haitis-cholera-outraced-the-experts-and-tainted-the-un.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref> continues to refuse to accept responsibility,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.ijdh.org/advocacies/our-work/cholera-advocacy/ |title= The Cholera Accountability Project |publisher= Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti |access-date= 25 July 2013 |archive-date= 7 July 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160707173825/http://www.ijdh.org/advocacies/our-work/cholera-advocacy/ |url-status= live }}</ref> however, they have launched a $2.2 billion initiative to combat cholera and the construction of a $17 million teaching hospital in Mirebalais which will employ 800 Haitians and treat 185,000 people.<ref>{{cite news|last=Roos|first=Robert|title=Cholera has struck more than 6% of Haitians|url=http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/fs/food-disease/news/jan0913cholera.html|newspaper=CIDRAP|date=9 January 2013|access-date=25 September 2013|archive-date=6 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506193329/http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/fs/food-disease/news/jan0913cholera.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Government of Haiti, health ministry http://www.mspp.gouv.ht/site/downloads/Rapport%20%20Web%2012.08_Avec_Courbes_Departementales.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927155229/http://www.mspp.gouv.ht/site/downloads/Rapport%20%20Web%2012.08_Avec_Courbes_Departementales.pdf |date=27 September 2013 }}</ref> By the beginning of the year only a small part—$215 million—of the total funds collected for aid had been spent on permanent housing, with most of it—$1.2 billion—going for short-term solutions including tent camps, temporary shelters, and cash grants that paid a year's rent.<ref name=autogenerated5 /> A 2013 survey disclosed that of the 1.5 million Haitians living in camps following the quake, about 279,000 remained in a total of 352 camps. 15% of the camps had no basic protection services,{{clarify|not sure what this means in a country when you run the other way when you see a cop coming|date=September 2013}} and 48% no health services.{{clarify|how does this compare against the rest of Haiti which mostly lacks health services|date=September 2013}} While 20% lacked functioning toilets, this is higher than the population outside tent cities, where 50% lack toilets.<ref name="Huffington Post"/> Many camps remained at a risk for flooding and more than a third of the camps (108) were at risk for evictions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eshelter-cccmhaiti.info/jl/images/sheltercccm%20cluster%20-%20hct%20meeting%2014082013%20.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.eshelter-cccmhaiti.info |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926225933/http://www.eshelter-cccmhaiti.info/jl/images/sheltercccm%20cluster%20-%20hct%20meeting%2014082013%20.pdf |archive-date=26 September 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In a 2013 statement, the American Red Cross reported that almost all of the money collected for quake relief has been spent or is scheduled for making progress permanent by ensuring people can leave camps and return to stable communities, which includes building new homes, repairing homes, completing a new hospital and clinic, and signing an agreement for a second hospital.<ref>[http://www.redcross.org/images/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m16140573_Haiti-Three-Year-Update.pdf Haiti Earthquake Response – Three -Year Update] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515014651/http://www.redcross.org/images/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m16140573_Haiti-Three-Year-Update.pdf |date=15 May 2013 }} Red Cross. 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