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As Renewed Haiti Cholera Crisis Looms, UN Blamed For Inadequate Effort

As the annual rainy season gathers over Haiti, bringing the risk of a renewed cholera epidemic that first struck in October 2011, growing numbers of health care professionals and relief workers are openly critical of the United Nations — which many believe brought the deadly disease to Haiti in the first place."The situation is worse than it was two years ago, " says Duncan McLean, a health program manager for Doctors Without Borders, a voluntary organization that treated some 23,000 Haitians for cholera last year. "I'm very, very concerned about the state of cholera preparation in Haiti. The situation has become more dangerous than it was before."More than 656,000 people have been infected, and 8,090 died of water-borne cholera as of  March 31, according to the Haitian health ministry, and according to McLean, who has visited Haiti numerous times since the emergency began, those totals are likely under-reported. And every rainy season, the number of cases spikes, as polluted water lev...

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  1. Already a "failure of management," UN computer project turns out to be an epic shambles for Ban Ki-moon

    For more than three years, a sophisticated computerized management system intended to be a cornerstone of United Nations reform has been one of Secretary General Ban...

  2. US, other nations quietly maneuvering to rein in sprawling, inefficient UN system

    Frustrated by the epic inefficiency, sprawling disorganization and free-spending of their money by the United Nations, a group of Western donor nations, including th...

  3. UN back to its free-spending ways, despite Obama administration claims

    Barely a year after the Obama administration claimed that it was bringing a new era of fiscal discipline to the bloated bureaucracy of the United Nations, the world ...

  4. Does UN arms trade treaty figure in Obama administration's gun control plans?

    One day after President Barack Obama won re-election, his  Administration agreed to a new round of  international negotiations to revive a United Nations-sponsored t...

  5. UN's $5.7B anti-poverty agency doesn't do much to reduce poverty, according to its own assessment

    The $5.7 billion United Nations Development Program bills itself as the U.N.'s flagship anti-poverty agency, but when it comes to actually helping the world's 1.3 bi...

  6. Amid violent insurgency, UN's costly Congo peacekeepers charged with making a bad situation even worse

    A United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has so far spent $12.8 billion, has been charged by critics with ineptitude and unwi...

  7. New UN climate ploy: Institutionalize payments for still-unspecified 'loss and damage'

    The United Nations is pushing for a novel way to get billions of extra dollars from Western nations by imposing a retroactive penalty for still-unspecified losses an...

  8. EXCLUSIVE: As the UN opens its General Assembly session, it is already thinking up new global taxes

    UPDATED: See editor's note at bottomA 1 percent tax on billionaires around the world.  A tax on all currency trading in the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen a...

  9. UN-sponsored group in Syria included Assad kin cited as corrupt by US, documents show

    EXCLUSIVE : In May 2011, as Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was moving to crush a growing tide of anti-government demonstrators, the United Nations was extolling a ...

  10. EXCLUSIVE: U.N. investigation of computer shipment to North Korea looks to be much less than thorough

    The United Nations agency that shipped American-made computers and sophisticated servers to North Korea is now attempting to avoid a thorough investigation that incl...

  11. Lawmakers say internal UN changes over Iran, N. Korea shipments fall short

    A United Nations agency under fire for shipments of computers and other equipment to North Korea and Iran announced internal changes this week in response to witheri...

  12. UN agency slammed after refusing US request for probe into Iran, N. Korea shipments

    A United Nations agency under fire for shipments of computers and other sophisticated equipment to North Korea and Iran has apparently rejected a request by the U.S....

  1. UN anti-poverty agency chases cash rather than long-term results, study says

    The $5.7 billion United Nations Development Program, the U.N.'s flagship anti-poverty agency,  is poor at producing lasting results, sets unrealistic or unfocused pr...

  2. Anti-Israel UN human rights official can't be fired, State Department says

    Richard Falk, the United Nations Human Rights official who said last month that the Boston Marathon bombings were connected to the "American global domination projec...

  3. Despite sequester, State Department ups support for the UN

    Even as the mandated sequester bites into U.S. federal spending -- and newly appointed Secretary of State John Kerry boasts that he is cutting his budget by 6 percen...

  4. UN official accused of diverting money still heads unit tied to Olympic Games

    EXCLUSIVE: A key official at the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has been charged with spending hundreds of thousands of dollars donated by the German drug...

  5. UN humanitarian aid financing is disorganized, unpredictable, study says

    The United Nations spends billions annually to relieve the suffering caused by natural disasters and civil war, but those costly efforts are uncoordinated, overlap o...

  6. Paid to play: Anti-gun group teams with UN to prep African countries for arms trade treaty talks

    A week before it opens a treaty conference to impose worldwide limitations on arms sales, the United Nations co-hosted and paid for a series of meetings  involving 4...

  7. As financial backers get impatient, UN officials urgently work on yet another reform plan

    Alarmed at a concerted push-back by member nations who are getting tired of funding the bloated and ineffectual United Nations, top U.N. managers are urgently trying...

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