Pregnant and in danger in Haiti

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor Lisa Searle describes the obstacles to receiving sexual and reproductive health care in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Every month, MSF reaches hundreds of people in need of this care through its mobile clinics, but the city’s health sector is at a breaking point, and more support is needed.
TRANSCRIPT:
Haiti is in crisis at the moment, particularly since the assassination of the president in July 2021.
That has forced the country into a downward spiral of violence. So, for Haitians living particularly in the capital city, Port-au-Prince, to access health care services is incredibly challenging.
We're talking about a situation where the city is segregated into different areas that are under the control of different armed groups.
We hear stories that people have left their neighborhood to seek health care in a different neighborhood, but when they try to come back into their neighborhood, they can be terrorized.
They're even being shot.
For a pregnant woman to access care throughout her pregnancy and to deliver in a health facility is almost impossible because of the access issues I mentioned.
Also because there is no free health care.
We think around 60 to 80 percent of deliveries are happening at home without a skilled birth attendant present, which is an alarming figure.
We are seeing huge numbers of cases of sexual and gender-based violence, and if care is available, then there are many things that we can prevent.
We can prevent HIV infection, we can prevent unwanted pregnancies, we can prevent infections.
But so many of these survivors never make it to care.
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