Dr. Louise Ivers Responds in Washington Post

In a letter to The Washington Post, Partners In Health's Dr. Louise Ivers responds to last week's news that the U.N. acknowledged its role in bringing cholera to Haiti. Ivers is a PIH senior health and policy advisor who has been leading cholera treatment, prevention, and control activities in Haiti since 2010.

"The U.N. can save lives, restore goodwill and stabilize the country by financing a plan to control cholera in Haiti," Ivers writes. "Partners In Health supports an ambitious plan to interrupt and stop the spread of the disease using a combination of mass vaccination and household water treatment. If the U.N. follows words with financing, it will be taking very strong steps toward making amends to a country whose people it has harmed. We call on it to do just that."

Read the full letter.

Help Partners In Health urge the United Nations to fund this plan by signing this petition. We will deliver signatures to Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. permanent representative to the U.N., when the U.N. General Assembly meets in New York in September. 

For more information, read this letter to Ambassador Power from Partners In Health CEO Dr. Gary Gottlieb.

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