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Every day brings new horrors for women and girls in Haiti as gang violence reaches terrifying levels in the capital city, Port-au-Prince.
Many homes have been burned or ransacked, forcing thousands of women and children to flee to temporary displacement sites outside the capital. Conditions in these sites are deplorable, with women and girls at heightened risk of sexual exploitation and violence and with people struggling to secure food, clean water, and other basic necessities.
Fewer than half of health facilities in the capital are fully functional, and those which are functional risk running out of essential supplies. In a country where 1,500 women die from childbirth complications each year already, limited maternal health care facilities make giving birth even more dangerous. As the healthcare system teeters on the brink of collapse, your gifts are making a difference:
UNFPA is supporting three hospitals in Port-au-Prince to provide maternal health services, including emergency obstetric care. We have provided medicines and supplies to 13 health facilities in the capital and surrounding region. UNFPA has also reached 4,500 people through mobile clinics deployed to seven displacement sites to support women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health. "We must keep going, for our families and our loved ones. Haiti must rise from her ashes,” said the Director of the Port-au-Prince maternity hospital, which was raided by gangs and stripped of its supplies in March.
Thank you for not looking away from this crisis. — USA for UNFPA |
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