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	<title>Big Medicine &#187; Haiti</title>
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		<title>Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/04/haiti-women-demand-role-in-reconstruction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News: Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MADRE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marie St Fleur]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York--Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery.
Their lack of a presence at the meeting was indicative of a broader missing voice in Haiti’s long-term reconstruction prospects, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Earthquake a reminder that disasters are preventable</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/02/haiti-earthquake-a-reminder-that-disasters-are-preventable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News: Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathleen Tierney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preparedness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Colorado at Boulder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Boulder CO--Amid all the commentary focused on the historic tragedy in Haiti, a tough but important fact has gone virtually unmentioned, according to a nationally recognized expert on disasters at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
"What is missing from the tragedy of disaster, and our response to it, is the recognition that disasters are preventable, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: International relief efforts remain fragmented &#8211; trauma docs</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/02/haiti-international-relief-efforts-remain-fragmented-trauma-docs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News: Americas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[London UK--Despite the frightening regularity of humanitarian disasters like the earthquake in Haiti, international responses remain fragmented and must be improved, argue a group of trauma surgeons on bmj.com today.
They warn that an uncoordinated push to get people and equipment into the affected zone as soon as possible can worsen the situation and reduce the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Looking to the hurricane season</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-looking-to-the-hurricane-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News: Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergency preparedness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reconstruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--The Haitian government estimates at least 500,000 need shelter after the 12 January earthquake devastated the city, but the challenge is to find options that will get people through the upcoming hurricane season, which typically starts in May, said Jean Phillippe Antolin, with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which is coordinating UN efforts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Tracking the scent of life</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-tracking-the-scent-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News: Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search and rescue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--The best search and rescue workers have stamina, a phenomenal sense of smell, and sharp hearing - they usually also have four legs.
Highly trained dogs and their handlers can offer the best chance of survival to people buried in the rubble of an urban search and rescue (USR) site, where there are often no outward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Haitian staff determined to help their people</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-haitian-staff-determined-to-help-their-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News: Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DWB]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--Haitian surgeon Dr. Philippe Brouard has worked with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at Trinité hospital in Port-au-Prince since 2006. On January 13, the morning after the earthquake, he came to work at the trauma surgery centre only to find that most of Trinité had collapsed. Two of his colleagues and several patients had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: MSF teams adapting to needs on the ground</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-msf-teams-adapting-to-needs-on-the-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News: Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cite Soleil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DWB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cite Soleil--The core medical activities in Haiti are still very much focused on treating people who were injured in the January 12 earthquake, with surgery continuing and post-operative care expanding. 
But as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Emergency Medical Coordinator Rosa Crestani explains, there is a new phase underway. "While we have done life-saving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Courage, selflessness and discovery</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-courage-selflessness-and-discovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News: Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christobal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DWB]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christobal--Isabelle Jeanson has worked in communications with Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since 2003. She has spent time with MSF missions in Colombia, Russia, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea, and she served as an emergency press officer in Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami. She joined the emergency team in Haiti 48 hours after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Capturing the disaster with high-tech imaging system</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-capturing-the-disaster-with-high-tech-imaging-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News: Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ImageCat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rochester Institute of Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rochester NY--In the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that struck Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology are sweeping the leveled city with high-tech imaging integrated into a small aircraft.
Funded by the World Bank, and in collaboration with ImageCat Inc., the five-day flight is meticulously mapping the disaster zone to aid in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Update from Health cluster</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-update-from-health-cluster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News: Americas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--Haiti’s Ministry of Health is becoming increasingly active in leading the health response. MINUSTAH is supporting humanitarian organizations in logistics, transport, fuel, and security.
There are approximately 600 spontaneous settlements where people are gathering. Mobile clinics are extremely important for ensuring primary health care, and security is an increasing issue in these settlements.
Currently there are 40 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: How WFP staffer dug his kids out of rubble</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-how-wfp-staffer-dug-his-kids-out-of-rubble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--When the earthquake hit Haiti at 16:53 on 12 January, WFP Programme Officer Gumel Henry was at the office. The first thing he did was run home. School had finished and he knew his children would be there. As he ran, he passed one collapsed building after another... 
When Gumel got home, he found his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Simple needs, complex logistics</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-simple-needs-complex-logistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--Red Cross and Red Crescent societies from around the world have been 'mobilising the power of humanity' in their respective countries, in very concrete ways, to assist the Haitian people.
Guetson Lamour, Administrator and Logistics Manager of the Haitian Red Cross, is working around the clock to ensure that this tremendous show of solidarity can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Protection issues</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-protection-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geneva--A joint OHCHR-UNHCR protection team is scheduled to arrive in Port-au-Prince today from the Dominican Republic. The five-member team is led by OHCHR's former director of field operations, and includes two other OHCHR staff and two UNHCR staff. It is the first time these two UN organizations have fielded a joint protection team of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Midwifery and nursing school destroyed</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-midwifery-and-nursing-school-destroyed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--The January 12 earthquake in Haiti didn't stop at taking lives and crippling people. It also wreaked havoc on the very foundations of the country's institutions, such as government ministries, hospitals and schools. It has halted, for the time being, the training of much-needed midwives.
Quettely Chevalier, a teacher at Haiti's only midwifery school, was giving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Saving as many people as we can</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-saving-as-many-people-as-we-can/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--Isabelle Jeanson has worked in communications with Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since 2003. She has spent time with MSF missions in Colombia, Russia, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea, and she served as an emergency press officer in Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami. She joined the emergency team in Haiti 48 hours after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: MSF rushing to meet patient needs</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-msf-rushing-to-meet-patient-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières staff in wards and operating theatres in Haiti are still working through very heavy caseloads while growing increasingly concerned about supply problems that threaten the welfare of patients. Drugs for surgical care, basic supplies for pre- and post-operative treatment, and equipment such as dialysis machines are urgently needed, but access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Transcript of MSF teleconference Jan 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toronto/Port-au-Prince--Avril Benoit: Welcome to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) media briefing. I’m Avril, director of communications based in Toronto. My name is A-V-R-I-L. Last name is B-E-N-O-I-T.
The purpose of the briefing is to give you the latest update from two of our most senior operations people in Port-Au-Prince. Benoit Leduc is emergency coordinator. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Needs grow as efforts expand, resupply needs mount</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Port-au-Prince are still under great pressure. While providing emergency care to as many people as possible, they are also searching for additional facilities that can serve as operating theaters and trying to get in more supplies. At the same time, MSF has been travelling to areas outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: US to open additional runway in Jacmel</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-us-to-open-additional-runway-in-jacmel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington DC--As some 200 daily flights transit through the congested and sole functioning Haitian airport in the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. military is looking to open a second runway in the city of Jacmel within a day.
The airfield will receive C-130 deliveries that initially will support Canadian humanitarian assistance efforts centered in the southern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: MSF plane with lifesaving medical supplies diverted from landing [again]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) cargo plane carrying 12 tons of medical equipment, including drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines, was turned away three times from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, airport since Sunday night, despite repeated assurances of its ability to land there.
This 12-ton cargo was part of the contents of an earlier plane carrying a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Highlights of the noon briefing at UN HQ in NYC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York NY--*There was a briefing at noon by Edmond Mulet, acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, and David Wimhurst, Communications Director for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Former spokesperson Michele Montas also participated in the briefing. Other highlights from the U.N. system follow:
SECURITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZES EXPANDED U.N. PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: La Croix-Rouge et le Croissant-Rouge renforcent leur aide d&#8217;urgence et se préparent pour le relèvement initial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--Les dirigeants de la plus grande organisation humanitaire de la planète sont en route pour Haïti dévastée par le tremblement de terre, dans le cadre d'une opération de secours et de relèvement de très grande ampleur.
Tadateru Konoé et Bekele Geleta, président et, respectivement, secrétaire général de la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Waiting to give birth among rubble and disaster victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--Dientola Astrel, a pregnant 29-year-old woman, says she was out walking when the devastating earthquake hit Haiti. She hurried home to check on her family and found that her husband had managed to get their nine-year-old daughter out of the house before it collapsed. But the relief was only partial; her mother, brother and sister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: A small town in the Dominican Republic becomes a gateway for relief efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jimani DR--Seven-year-old Jean -Paul sits up in his bed at a small hospital in the border town of Jimani, whimpering in pain. His arm and leg are bandaged and his face is swollen with a badly scraped cheek.
Two of his brothers are also at this hospital. All three were injured during the earthquake that levelled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: ICRC &#8211; la situation est véritablement catastrophique</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2010/01/haiti-icrc-la-situation-est-veritablement-catastrophique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince--Les habitants de Port-au-Prince en sont à lutter pour leur simple survie. Assoiffés et le ventre vide, ils sont à bout de nerfs et commencent à réaliser ce qui leur arrive. Le CICR a intensifié ses efforts et s'emploie à distribuer vivres, eau et médicaments à des milliers de rescapés.
Situation générale
Pour beaucoup d'habitants de Port-au-Prince, [...]]]></description>
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