Haiti Situation Report #3 – May 2024 – Haiti

Highlights

● During the reporting period, continued armed attacks and clashes between armed gangs and the police were reported in some communes in Port-au-Prince, resulting in new displacements of people and forcing already displaced people from temporary sites. This continued to limit humanitarian access for aid delivery.

● Many health facilities are still closed or have drastically reduced their operations. In the Metropolitan Area of Port-au-Prince (MZPAP), 4 UNFPA-supported hospitals (Fontaine, Petit Place Cazeau, Hôpital Universitaire La Paix, and Eliezer Germain) remain operational and received essential medicines, medical equipment, and supplies to improve capacity for maternal health care, including emergency obstetric care, and the clinical management of rape.

● Despite limited humanitarian access, UNFPA continues to provide life-saving services for women and girls through the deployment of integrated mobile clinics, dignity kit distribution, the provision of reproductive health supplies to health facilities, and coordination and support for GBV survivors through a hotline.

● UNFPA received US$1.9 million of the US$12 million allocated by the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for the provision of integrated GBV and emergency sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes in the main affected communes of MZPAP.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

● The international port and airport of Port-au-Prince remain closed. This continues to impact and
delay the shipping of reproductive health supplies, including for the clinical management of rape.

● Access to displacement sites remains a challenge. The planned distribution of dignity kits, the
deployment of mobile clinics to sites and a GBV safety audit had to be suspended in the third week
of April due to the activity of armed gangs.

● The continued displacement of women and girls is creating new needs, including a lack of access
to basic health services/hygiene supplies. Finding money and resources to take care of themselves
and their families is also a challenge, with increased risks of sexual exploitation and abuse and
negative coping mechanisms such as transactional sex.

● UNFPA’s priority is to strengthen reproductive health and protection services at health facilities that
remain open and through the deployment of mobile clinics and supplies to displacement sites.