As COVID-19 restrictions wind down in many countries around the world, Haiti is trying to ramp up. For reasons that aren't clear, the small Caribbean nation had escaped relatively unscathed by the ...

As a health journalist, I've written the phrase “the COVID-19 pandemic” more times than I care to count in the four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) first used that term on March 11, ...

In the wake of one of the most devastating moments in Haiti's arduous history, there has been a bright spot. One week after Haiti's president was assassinated, the country's first shipment of COVID-19 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti does not have a single vaccine to offer its more than 11 million people over a year after the pandemic began, raising concerns among health experts that the well-being ...

Michael Osterholm, left, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, right, at a briefing during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 in St. Paul, Minn. Michael Osterholm, left, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, right, ...

Haiti on Monday postponed a constitutional referendum scheduled for June 27 citing the coronavirus pandemic, but did not give a new date for the vote in the latest twist in its political crisis.

Haiti on Sunday reported its first novel coronavirus death, a 55-year-old man who had underlying health conditions. Two people in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince wear face masks while shopping; a ...

Dr. Paul Farmer, professor of medicine at Harvard University, has spent three decades helping poor countries fight devastating diseases – from tuberculosis to cholera to Ebola to Zika. As co-founder ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitian pastor Burel Fontilus feared for his life in late March when he contracted the new coronavirus. It wasn’t the COVID-19 respiratory disease that frightened him, he ...

This is not the first time that the State Department has suspended regular visa service in Haiti, where both an escalation in gang violence and the COVID-19 pandemic created a backlog of applicants.