UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sounded an optimistic note for Haiti, saying its future looks better than any emerging markets thanks to US trade legislation approved by Washington last year.

Immigrants from the storm-ravaged island should be allowed to stay in the United States.

Vedette is one of the women in the Heartline Women’s Program sewing purses to be sold at www.haitiancreations.com.

At least once a month, students at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School participate in a service project to help others less fortunate.

Haitian Prime Minister Michele Duvivier Pierre Louis visits the medicine storage of Chinese anti-riot peacekeepers in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, March 28, 2009.

As America’s unemployment rate rises, those paying the severest price aren’t necessarily in Detroit or Miami. One of the newest street children here in this northern Haitian city is a 10-year-old boy whose father was working in Florida but lost his job and can no longer send money home. As...

World TB Day was on March 24.A If this were a blog about HIV/AIDS, I could write about the progress that Haiti and the rest of the world is making.A However, this is a blog on tuberculosis and a fight we are losing.A More than two billion people, one third of the worlda TMs total population, are infected...

Shirley White holds a child at an orphanage in the Port-au-Prince area that is supported by the International Village of Hope.

Dear Malaria,Words can not adequately express how I feel about seeing you again right now. (No words suitable for public consumption, anyway.) I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that you made your appearance while I am here caring for a large tribe of little people without my wife - you’ve always...

Public health workers plan to vaccinate some 1 million women and children this week around Haiti’s impoverished capital after delays exacerbated by food riots and hurricanes, officials said Friday.