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How many students does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? Tony Anderson, Morehouse College ’08, can answer that.

Three days after the earthquake that struck Haiti, Shelove Julmiste was told her crushed leg would have to be amputated. She thought she would never walk again. Now two years later, Shelove is running Haiti's first rehab program and helping people get back on their feet

The cholera epidemic in Haiti has cast a stark light on deep development holes and disagreements about whether a short-term patch--in the form of a cholera vaccine--can help in the long-term fight for better health. [More]

By Kevin Gray and Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti will commemorate the two-year anniversary on Thursday of a devastating earthquake that ravaged the Western Hemisphere's poorest country as it struggles to rebuild and hundreds of thousands of quake victims remain homeless. [More]

After Haiti’s earthquake two years ago, cholera swept the country. And within a month, the same strain had spread to the Dominican Republic and the U.S., and then to Venezuela, Mexico, Spain, and Canada. [More]

International Medical Corps is a model for global not-for-profits , with a plan that goes way beyond drop-in disaster relief. In Jacmel, Haiti, Dr. Dan Khodabakhsh, center behind woman, teaches locals how to fashion a sling out of a bedsheet

"In 1983, when I went to Haiti, the wave of sentiment that crashed over me was not just, gosh, this is appalling--it’s unfair." [More]

Paul Farmer: Wikimedia Commons/Billigan PHILADELPHIA Paul Farmer is used to uphill battles. After decades working to fight HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in impoverished areas of Haiti, the seemingly tireless doctor and anthropologist is now struggling to reassemble a health strategy for the country after last year’s earthquake and subsequent cholera outbreak .

Through a new membership model, Do Something is counting on text messages to create a movement of 5 million teenage activists by 2015. Can they get Generation Text to care about poverty, hunger, homelessness, and disease

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Team Zaryean from Haiti is mostly made up of victims of the 2010 earthquake and they traveled to Washington, D.C.

A new machine lets first responders find people trapped at disaster sites by detecting individual molecules of breath, sweat, and urine that float up through the concrete. Firefighters and other first responders rushing to collapsing buildings and disaster situations will soon have a new weapon in their arsenal, replacing dogs, cameras, and robots: a series of sensors that find individual molecules of sweat and spit coming from victims trapped under concrete, locating them by their emissions. The high-tech emergency solution, which was unveiled in a research paper for the actually existing Journal of Breath Research, was created by a joint European team that reconfigured a series of commercially available detectors to hunt for unique human emanations.

Researchers have been trolling Twitter for insights into the human condition since shortly after the site launched in 2006.

* Haiti struck by earthquake, cholera epidemic in 2010 * Nepalese peacekeepers operated in central Haiti [More]

The kids didn't know who Rory McIlroy was in Haiti — a welcome reminder to one of golf's potential superstars that there certainly are more important things than hitting that little white ball around the course.