Press Release: European Commissioner Georgieva makes a plea for cholera victims in Haiti

The December 2010 riots in Haiti are having serious consequences on the humanitarian aid operations in Haiti. Many people affected by cholera no longer have access to life-saving treatment, because widespread violence prevents cholera treatment centres from operating and medical personnel from moving around freely. The violence is also preventing the delivery of clean water and other basic services, both to cholera affected communities and to the numerous tented camps which still house more than one million people affected by the January 2010 earthquake.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Factsheet on Haiti earthquake http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-factsheet-on-haiti-earthquake/

European Commission: Memo/10/674: Haiti Cholera Factsheet http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/674&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Speech/10/751: Kristalin Georgiva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, "Cholera in Haiti", Press Statement, Brussels, 13 December 2010 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/751&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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