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    New Demographic and Health Survey Shows Positive Results in Haiti

    July 30, 2013 By Wilson Center Staff
    Haitian family

    The original version of this article, by Natalia Machuca, appeared on USAID’s Impact blog.

    A newly released nationwide health survey of Haiti shows continuing positive trends on key health-care indicators in particular those of Haitian women and children. The latest survey, undertaken by the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population, was conducted in 2012 and compares with the prior survey done in 2006. It shows steady improvements among key indicators despite significant health challenges in Haiti due to the 2010 earthquake and cholera outbreak. Of note were improved indicators for child vaccination and malnutrition, infant and child mortality, women’s health, and contraception use. The report indicated no increase in HIV prevalence, which remained steady.

    The Morbidity, Mortality, and Service Utilization Survey measures progress and setbacks in health outcomes over the years. The results were announced July 9 by Dr. Florence Guillaume Duperval, Haiti’s minister of public health and population. The survey has been administered in Haiti five times since 1994.

    The previous survey was administered in Haiti between 2005 and 2006; this latest survey was conducted from January 2012 to June 2012. Over 13,000 households participated in the current survey, representing rural and urban areas in all of Haiti’s 10 departments, including camps for people displaced by the January 2010 earthquake. The results were eagerly anticipated by health experts concerned of possible setbacks brought on by the devastating quake, which killed more than 230,000 people and displaced more than 1.5 million.

    Continue reading on USAID’s Impact blog.

    Sources: MEASURE DHS.

    Photo Credit: Louise Ernathe Saintus and her grandchildren, courtesy of Frederic Dupoux/HelpAge International.

    Topics: development, disaster relief, environment, family planning, global health, Haiti, HIV/AIDS, humanitarian, maternal health, nutrition, population, USAID, youth

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