Durant la période entre la fin du régime et le séisme, l’instabilité fut un facteur contribuant à l’augmentation des problématiques de viol et d’une hausse de violence basée sur le genre. En effet, durant le régime, le viol fut utilisé comme une façon d’assoir le régime et d’affirmer son pouvoir (dégradants, tortures). La violence étant légitimée par le politique, elle reste présente dans les mœurs de beaucoup. Aussi, pour toutes les victimes du régime, nombreuses sont celles qui souffrent de troubles psychologiques ou physiques conséquents. (Résumé par Mouka)

Haiti has the highest maternal and neo-natal mortality rates in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Low rates of prenatal and postnatal care, and institutional births, contribute to high levels of maternal and neo-natal mortality rates. In Haiti, most women especially the poorest deliver at home with the help of a matron (traditional birth attendant). The objective of this diagnostic is to use a behavioral methodology to uncover the drivers to increase safe birth deliveries in Haiti.

The Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services (INGENAES) project is funded through the Bureau for Food Security (BFS) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the Presidential Feed the Future Initiative, which strives to increase agricultural productivity and the incomes of both men and women in rural areas who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods.

Objectives:
We conducted a mixed methods study of delayed access to emergency obstetrical care among preeclamptic and non-preeclamptic women in Port au Prince, Haiti, grounded in the Three Delays model of Thaddeus and Maine. The primary objectives were to identify factors affecting delays in accessing care and clinical consequences of delays.
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Unprotected sexual intercourse places young women in multiple partnerships at great risk for sexually transmitted infections in Haiti. While the most effective means of preventing these infections is consistent condom use, little is known about the factors that influence its use. This study sought to analyze high-risk sexual behavior among young Haitian women with multiple sex partners and to identify and understand factors that influence condom use among these young women. Data were drawn from the 2017 Haiti Demographic and Health survey.

Objective. To explore the effect of an innovative, integrative program in female sexual reproductive health (SRH) and soccer (or fútbol, in Haitian Creole) in rural Haiti by measuring the rate of births among program participants 15–19 years old and their nonparticipant peers.

Objectives
In Haiti, efforts to improve maternal newborn child health must be tracked and monitored to measure their success. At a rural Haitian hospital, health system changes took place that resulted in the opening of a newly-constructed maternity unit, with increased personnel, and physical space. We aimed to determine if the new maternity led to improvements in maternal and newborn outcomes.
Methods

This report describes the methods and results of operations research undertaken to assess the effectiveness of World Vision’s maternal and child health1 (MCH) program in the Central Plateau region of Haiti. The research had three main objectives: (1) to assess the effectiveness of implementation and operations of the program relative to plans; (2) to assess the quality of delivery of the various services; and (3) to explore the perceptions of different stakeholders (i.e., beneficiaries and field implementers) regarding the operations and quality of services provided by the program.

Le SIDA a été au cours de la première décennie de la pandémie une maladie létale. À compter de 1996, la disponibilité des antirétroviraux (ARV) a fait passer l’infection au VIH de maladie mortelle à maladie chronique. Ce progrès des sciences biomédicales a eu et continue d’avoir des effets sur l’espérance de vie des personnes touchées, notamment des enfants infectés par transmission verticale. Il a des impacts positifs sur l’état de santé des jeunes nouvellement infectés par transmission sexuelle.

At the request of the former Haitian Minister of Women’s Affairs and Women’s Rights, H.E. Adeline Magloire Chancy, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI), commissioned by the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC), conducted research in the area of gender justice. More specifically and in accordance with the terms of reference provided by the Haitian Ministry, the project focused on the five separate but interrelated areas of: (1) termination of pregnancy, (2) customary unions (cohabitation), (3) paternity determination, (4) domestic violence, and (5) rape.