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• ARTICLE_POSTED_BY: Marcel Wah
• ARTICLE_POSTED_ON: Jan 28, 2015
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  by Crystal LanderMichele Alexander

  JANUARY 20, 2015

  A community health worker visits a family and records health data.
  Photo credit: Maureen Taft-Morales/Haiti

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• Website : http://www.msh.org/blog/2015/01/20/haiti-study-tour-recognizing-health-progress

Overview

• This post is part of MSH's Global Health Impact Blog series, Improving Health in Haiti: Remember, Rebuild.

  Management Sciences for Health (MSH) sponsored a Congressional Staff Study Tour in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in December 2014 to help staffers get a first-hand account of health progress in Haiti. The overarching focus of the trip was how US government funded health efforts in Haiti are being leveraged for health impact and the role of the Haitian government in that process.

  The five-year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake (January 12) has brought the country's rebuilding efforts to the forefront of international development conversations again. Unfortunately, much of the post-earthquake development dialogue has focused on the setbacks and delays of large-scale infrastructure and rebuilding projects without considering sectors such as health that have made relative progress. Greater awareness is needed among US decision makers and the press to disaggregate the good from the bad and to recognize the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population’s health systems progress in partnership with organizations like MSH.

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