CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The ongoing social unrest has negatively affected public health infrastructure, creating an environment that has facilitated the current resurgence and associated high mortality across the country. In addition, recent fuel shortages have hindered water treatment efforts and other cholera response activities nationwide.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 2010, a cholera outbreak in Haiti, which was traced back to sewage negligently released from a United Nations peacekeepers base into a river near the town of Mirebalais, caused about 9, 800 deaths and over 820, 000 infections.

Detailed explanation-3: -The second track of the New UN System Approach on Cholera in Haiti proposes to provide material assistance to individuals and families who were most affected by cholera. The material assistance package is the UN’s attempt at reparations after accepting responsibility for the introduction of cholera in Haiti.