UN Requests Two Billion USD to Fight Cholera in Haiti

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Prensa Latina News Agency

United Nations, Feb 28 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations called on the international community today to contribute two billion USD to fund a new Haitian government plan to wipe out cholera transmission in ten years.

The call, made by the World Health Organization and the Pan-American Health Organization, is focused on heavy investment in water and sanitation, according to a document distributed in the UN headquarters in New York.

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At least 1,500 cases of cholera still register in Haiti every week, according to PAHO.


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[AverageMe]

1. I live in the Dominican Republic, Haiti's neighbor

The government there is extremely corrupt. Any money given to it in order to solve the problem will just disappear, and never serve the purpose for which it was given. Any help must be given through non-governmental organizations.

[L0oniX]

2. 2 billion??? WTF? It costs that much? Let me guess ...99% of it goes somewhere else. n/t

[bigworld]

3. That's $200,000 per person in Haiti?

Is my math correct?

2,000,000,000,000 ($2 billion) divided by 10,000,000 (population of Haiti) = $200,000 per person?

[dipsydoodle]

4. You've used a European billion.

Its £200 / person using a US billion.

[octothorpe]

8. Lol European billion... wtf?

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[dipsydoodle]

9. I meant the originally defined billion

which was a million million as opposed to current thousand million.

[octothorpe]

10. Really? I need to look this up, because I never heard of this.

[octothorpe]

11. Whooa

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/how-many-is-a-billion

I didn't know this. Thanks to you, I've learned something new today. I feel like I should have known this though.

[dipsydoodle]

12. We learn from each other

[jsr]

5. Somebody is going to have a huge Swiss bank account

[leftynyc]

6. Didn't the UN bring the

cholera to Haiti? And now they want the US to bail them out?

[octothorpe]

7. Not just the US, but the international community.

[Posteritatis]

13. Way to read the article. (nt)